It’s better than nothing but I hate the additional logs that came from it constantly fighting firewalld.

This was a large part of the reason I switched to rootless podman for everything

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Automation

To be fair, C predates dependency hell. It was either there or it wasn’t. C++ has less of an excuse, but it was just object oriented concepts taped to C so it’s no surprise it was also missing dependency management.

Now with cmake, gnu-make, meson, gradel, and the world of metabuild systems that wrap those, nothing will change. It it does, it might as well kick start world war 3.

significant economic harm to our company

Oh! I have a solution! Make it a local API you fucking goofs.