> It's the other way around that can be suboptimal. If some application wants to integrate git it could execute in a subshell (which is frowned upon for good re

> It's the other way around that can be suboptimal. If some application wants to integrate git it could execute in a subshell (which is frowned upon for good reasons) or use libgit instead. What's wrong with invoking an executable or using libgit? It seems you're totally missing the whole point. The problem was never that you could not consume libraries from an executable. The actual problem is that you're somehow expecting to consume a third-party package in a way that the project maintainers do not support, let alone maintain. Adding a build flag that supports a convoluted and arguably useless usecases of linking with symbols shipped in third-party executables change nothing.