It's the mentality. Few distributions have any distinction between the base system and the crap you throw on, even PC-BSD ha shad problems with that over the years. Being lazy, I tend to use $HOME/Software on Linux because I don't trust them not to screw up /usr/local.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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