Reading those complaints cold, I would suspect DJB to be between 16 and 22 years old; old enough to have seen more than his own system, but young enough to be absolutely certain his off-the-cuff solution is better than any of those other idiots can come up with. It helps to be the smartest person in any room, I guess.

"When oaf was integrated into ``the system,'' it was moved to /usr/bin/oaf, and its files moved to /usr/share/oaf, because FHS doesn't let ``the system'' touch /usr/local. What happened in this case is that oaf didn't find files that were put into /usr/local/share/oaf by another package."

Once upon a time, I worked as a sysadmin for a major university computer science department. We supported a half-dozen or so different architectures. We built a long list of software, including all of the X and Gnu programs, so that our users had the same environment essentially everywhere. Oh, and we all built it to live under /lusr, because our convention started before "/usr/local" was a thing. (The weird looks when you started babbling about "slash-loser" were just a fringe benefit.)

imake was a giant pain in the rear. Autotools were also a giant pain in the rear. But everything else, except in very, very simple cases, was much worse. DJB's software would come under the header of "sorry, not supportable without unreasonable effort."