>Many people didn't contribute purely because they just didn't want to deal with Drepper. I have no numbers to be able to confirm or deny this, but... >Debian

>Many people didn't contribute purely because they just didn't want to deal with Drepper. I have no numbers to be able to confirm or deny this, but... >Debian found it necessarily to fork GNU libc because of Drepper. ... Debian created eglibc because they needed glibc to support their use case and Drepper didn't. Even if Drepper had been the nicest person in the world, if he rejected patches to run glibc on non-x86 then forking was unavoidable.