I totally agree with this point , I think it's one of the most important thing to care about. loic
As a user I would rather do the research to see which externals I needed than to be forced into accepting one or the other, ESPECIALLY if vanilla classes are overwritten -- this seems the most egregious to me. Pd+libs and Pd-extended should support vanilla patching, since many users insist upon vanilla only -- worrying about cyclone and allowing vanilla to break seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse with regard to backward compatibility.