The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a d

The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that declares that "Django can have dependencies". The "Background" section is a good read and helps explain the origins of these attitudes: https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-dependency-policy.rst#background-and-motivation https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-depend....