> If every piece of software should get an exception to the rule, we don't have a distribution anymore. And from what i can tell, quite a bit of upstream would

> If every piece of software should get an exception to the rule, we don't have a distribution anymore. And from what i can tell, quite a bit of upstream would see that as a good thing. They just want to stuff their thing into a container and call it a day, distros be damned. To me that is like going back to the DOS days of software, or even close to the present day of Windows software, where everything is dangling off in their own sub-dir with all their snowflake variants of dependencies. Damn it, go back a few years and Microsoft go burned by this when they discovered that there was a vulnerability in the VC++ redistributable dlls. All they could do was issue updates for their own software, a tool for scanning the drive for vulnerable copies of the dlls, and a wish that customers would badger their software providers for updated versions of affected software.