The shims idea is interesting, but isn't it a lot of trouble to make and maintain a shim (which has to somehow indicate where to find the source files for the library), compared to forking a system?
+1
there's already the sharplispers group for taking over unmaintained
systems (not to be confused with hostile systems):
https://github.com/sharplispers
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