I’m not really sure what one is supposed to take away from this rant. (It’s also quite old so some things have changed in the years that followed.) In the arti

I’m not really sure what one is supposed to take away from this rant. (It’s also quite old so some things have changed in the years that followed.) In the article, PHK seem to assume that it’s a good idea that each user compile all their applications locally. I know this is the norm in some places (e.g. Gentoo?), but is it really a reasonable expection of users in general? I consider myself a power user, but if I want to install a tool, in most cases I just fetch it using Homebrew and I will get a binary, so no need to compile it at all. Compilation and packaging might be complex for some of those tools, but it’s “out-sorced”. IMHO a system such as macOS + Homebrew works well from the end-user perspective. Do I say that just because I’m lost in the bazaar? Have I even seen one of these cathedrals that PHK refers to? Not sure. What would count as a cathedral? HP-UX? Symbolics’ Genera? Would OpenBSD count?