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That's because package management is an extremely hard thing to do if you're only trying to control one part of a system and have it work magically in different
by ris 8y ago
That's because package management is an extremely hard thing to do if you're only trying to control one part of a system and have it work magically in different environments. And so strangely enough programming language people writing their own toy-town package managers get it wrong again and again and again.
- bb88 8y agoIt's worth noting that autotools for building C/C++ was so broken that ESR declared that SCONS (written in python) was a much better way to build C/C++ code.