> if they "aren't" doing that then it doesn't help. True enough. To be clear I don't fault anyone for not using new or known to be broken or little known stand

> if they "aren't" doing that then it doesn't help. True enough. To be clear I don't fault anyone for not using new or known to be broken or little known standards. However at some point responsibility has to shift to the developers. There are standard ways of doing things. Just as you can't expect an arbitrary project to support your pet API that hardly anyone uses, developers can't expect major distributions or the majority of users to cater to their refusal to conform to widely accepted standards. I'm not saying you shouldn't use a particular program. Just that I don't think it's reasonable to fault the tooling for certain things.