| 20 Mar 2025 |
 John Ericson | there should be some baseline API | 21:23:25 |
| John Ericson | but "repeating the boilerplate is annoying" is rather a slipperly slope | 21:23:37 |
| John Ericson | because adding more stuff always cuts more downstream dependenices | 21:23:49 |
| John Ericson | no disagreement | 21:24:05 |
| John Ericson | what I mean by mass rebuild is I guess is more just changing hte foundations | 21:24:30 |
| John Ericson | and then fixing all the packages | 21:24:33 |
| John Ericson | few people want to do that | 21:24:37 |
| John Ericson | we need to get the resources somehow | 21:24:46 |
| John Ericson | there is nothing hard about getting out the autotools assumption | 21:24:53 |
| John Ericson | it is just a lot of annoying work | 21:24:57 |
| John Ericson | CA derivations are supposed to help with these things RIP | 21:25:07 |
| John Ericson | (that was my thought so many year ago) | 21:25:17 |
