Re: [RFC v2 0/2] add kconfirm

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 1:28 AM Jan Engelhardt <ej@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Definitely! It is why I mentioned "even better", i.e. if it can be
done using system packages across a reasonable amount of
distributions, then that should be the approach. However, sometimes
that may not be as easy as it is with very well established (and
stable) C libraries/APIs.

Cheers,
Miguel