Alan,
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Marc Balmer wrote:
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(not to speak of the advantages of keeping airport codes up to date using Lua scripts...)This is not a good example. Whatever Lua script you want to keep airport codes up to date could run off-line on a system that uses Lua from pkgsrc, and the results could then be committed to the base system's CVS repository without needing Lua in base.
This was, obviously, a joke. Sorry for not making that clear... ;) - MarcPS: I will reply to the other points later, I just want to gather some replies first.