May I add my 0.02$ as the author of RFC: Templating without a System?

IMHO there's also one compelling reason for re-inventing wheels - if you realize that existing wheels are not wheels, but either complete vehicles or wheels with brakes, or axles, or self-inflating tyres, whatever, i.e to get at the wheel. You need not delve into the making of the car to tell it from a wheel. Providing a basic wheel on which most agree that it's basic may result much more difficult than providing a complete group of axles with steering device and electronics, the more as the latter is handier to assemble a car with, and nobody seems to need a bare wheel in the first place.

--shmem

update: changed axes to axles (thanks wfsp), I didn't mean tools for ork slaying :-)

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