Look, I understand that combining gcc/binutils/glibc is a complete clusterfuck that needs some patches (each of these projects is "individually" at least somewhat sane, but they don't like working together at all), and I understand that there is a lot of shitty code in the average desktop environment. Really, some patches probably are necessary. (Although there's a whole debate about feeding them upstream that you could have at this point.)

But why does Debian split up Postfix (well-written, actively maintained) into a zillion different packages stitched together by dynamic loading, instead of just configuring it properly? Why does Debian fuck up OpenSSL?