Re: [Freeglut-developer] Building from CVS under Cygwin

[Richard R. <sf...@ol...>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:15:10PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Quoting Richard Rauch <sf...@ol...>:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:12:35PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > packagers. If some packaging system really is as limited as you describe,
> > that
> > > is unfortunate: there are compelling reasons why it should not be.
> > 
> > It's not limiting.  It is organizing.
> > 
> > Think about why you usually type "mkdir".
> 
> A venerable quote from Emerson comes to mind. Any organization scheme should
> facilitate a working system, not impede it. At the point that a scheme begins to

A good quote to bear in mind.

And when the organization facilitates things, you shouldn't discard it wantonly.


 [...a bunch of old stuff the reply to which is "see previous"...]

> Your psychic powers must not be firing on all cylinders. I have not voiced an
> opinion on pkgsrc, nor do I even have one. It is easy to see, though, that such

I don't have any psychic powers.  Sorry.  I just read and interpret English.
Perhaps the shift from talking about pkgsrc organization to talking about
"inelegant" and "limited" systems was just a discontinuity in the discussion,
or perhaps I misread or misunderstood.  But it read like an oblique troll to me.

If it wasn't meant as such then I was in error, my apologies.


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