Re: [RFC v2 0/2] add kconfirm

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2026-05-10 11:49, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM Jan Engelhardt <ej@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Good lord, how is anyone supposed to review that amount –
>> or is it just getting rubberstamped anyway?
>
>[...] another option for that may be using the distribution's
>registry

That should really be the target. After all, Linux is not bundling
e.g. ncurses (for `make menuconfig`, if one wants to use it)
or libelf (mandatory for objtool and thus everything) either.

>the versions need to fit, one still needs to provide a way
>to do it for distributions that do not match, etc.

Linux, and many other projects, have run on a "The system version is
king" model for a long time. If libelf, binutils, gcc, libx11, or
whatever the dependency in question may be, the project trying to use
a dependency would add a few-liner patch to broaden the accepted
range, rather than trying to re-provide the dependency as a whole.