Interaction with upstream

Quite often, upstream is not interested in the ideas behind stal/IX:

• glib developers actively hinder static linking with glib;
• VTE developers don’t care about building with musl, and don’t answer questions;
• musl refuses to add a preprocessor macro to determine if code is built with musl;
• sway doesn’t want to patch for fully supervised process tree;
• we can’t use the execline utilities in our startup scripts because their static build is too big;
• tty freeze after sway death, and fix that can’t enter upstream;
• fake dlopen, for projects that can’t live without external plugins;
• XCURSOR_SIZE support in gtk;
• support for alternative database of mime types in glib;
• by default, linux kernel eat CPU cycles on breakfast, we disable it by default;
• custom gdk-pixbuf SVG loader, over lunasvg (instead of rsvg).

So we have to maintain a set of fixes and patches for upstream that will never be merged into upstream.

The goals of the project are more important than the arrogant behavior of some maintainers!

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