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I like and I enjoy being a developer and package maintainer. The distro offers incredible flexibility to configure your system in any way you like.

But I really wish that didn't attract complete nutters who want to run Linux with mostly modern software but e.g. don't want udev on their systems.

(Similar situations arise with dbus, rust, etc., to say nothing of systemd)

mattst88 :gentoo:

Recent hilarity (from the same user, no less!)

- Package failed to build because `QtCore/qsystemdetection.h` was missing. Turns out the user didn't want anything related to systemd on his system, so he was removing anything that matched *systemd*.
- User wanted to be able to build Xorg with GLX support but *not* DRI, because it would save 0.4 MiB (12.8 MiB on-disk vs 12.4 MiB), and somehow this configuration was supposed to play Steam games.