What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Simon Wesp wrote:
>
> This problem is like the duplicated zlib problematic for rsync and
> zsync.

No, it isn't.

> Is a modified zlib a duplicate of zlib? Or is it is own fork?
The latter.

> Or whatever? 
It's bad design. A package which hacks around into commonly accepted and 
widely used system libraries is simply hacking around.

A proper design would "use zlib" without modifications, like many other 
applications do, or to ask zlib's upstream to adopt the changes.

Ralf