has to, well, first of all, they stop. They can't process the code. They can't just put it onto the assembly line and just have it magically work. Now they have to look at what's happening. Well, what system is this using? Oh, it's using Other. Okay, well, what is Other? What has the programmer decided they believe how their application should install? And that's a whole mess because now you have to kind of trust whether that programmer understands system design or whether they just understood how to program really well, and then in the delivery side of things they just thought, well, on my machine, if I put this in this directory and that in that directory, everything works as expected. Not once allowing for the fact or for the possibility that someone out there might not have this directory. Or they might, but it might be on a super fast important disk and they don't need all their man pages on that super fast important disk. They just want their man pages basically online, but they (10/54)
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