I like your answer. It's civilized, balanced, and I agree with every word of it :-) I'll add as an anecdote that I do follow your practices (limiting dependenc

I like your answer. It's civilized, balanced, and I agree with every word of it :-) I'll add as an anecdote that I do follow your practices (limiting dependencies). It works wonderfully on Debian stable (most of the software there is now >2 years old, the next version has just been soft frozen). I have the occasional package pulled from testing: I recently toyed with Perl6. And currently I use a newer version of python3-sphinx for a nicer doc syntax but I could do without. It causes no headaches at all.