iproute2 and libbpf: vendoring on the small scale

This isn't to say nothing has changed, we most notably have the Internet now. Now even when ignoring the 8 fallacies of distributed computing, no one would go for the extreme of the entire Internet downloading and using the same library every time! Oh, wait... https://lwn.net/Articles/681410/ :-D

No simple solution for building, versioning, distributing and configuring software, only a large panel of engineering trade-offs for various situations. The reason these arguments keep coming is because many developers underestimate these problems and are even sometimes condescending with the people who are trying to solve them. Imagine hearing that soon enough computers will be capable to write better code than the one you're writing right now because you're not really solving difficult problems, "just do this, it's not hard". It is hard actually. The very first step is to acknowledge it is and respect (not: agree with) different approaches.