> Ah, there's some classic Drepper.
I think it's actually quite appropriate that the maintainer of the software that (in one form or the other) is present on hundreds of millions of devices is a bit conservative.
I think it's actually quite appropriate that the maintainer of the software that (in one form or the other) is present on hundreds of millions of devices is a bit conservative.
While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely technical, freedom from Drepper is not an unacknowledged feature of these alternatives.
For example he's "famous" for refusing to patch ldd to work with any posix shell instead of bash: https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266
It was recently fixed, but only after more considerate guys took over maintainership...