@SuperDicq @kaia @grillchen @sun No my point is that the modularity of the ecosystem is going away and it makes it harder for maintainers to maintain software on systems with non-mainstream dependencies removed.

The user probably does not care that much what is running, unless they are a power user. The problem is that packaging the software properly is becoming harder.

In other words, the free software written today isn't portable. You can no longer run ./configure on various esoteric Linux distros, *BSDs, Solaris,... and expect it configure and build without much problems. Everybody just targets the most known configuration and usually ignores the rest.