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Sure there are two types (or more?) of dependencies, but at the end of the day the AppSignal app requires those +13,000 dependencies in order to work properly (
by danny_sf45 6y ago
Sure there are two types (or more?) of dependencies, but at the end of the day the AppSignal app requires those +13,000 dependencies in order to work properly (first to build it, and then to run it). That's horrendous.
- sitkack 6y agoHow many dependencies do we need to put food on the table? Perform a surgery? Or make an optically flat piece of glass? I believe all pieces of technology have similar dependency graphs.
- kqr 6y agoYou might be missing the point. A hospital in which surgeries are performed should hopefully already contain all dependencies required for a surgery. So when a new surgery is starting, the hospital staff should not need to run out and get more supplies. In the same way, the "dependencies" required to build my hardware aren't counted in that number. What counts is the extra stuff that isn't already part of the running system.
- sitkack 6y agoI had a totes badass response with [9] footnotes and backstory, an arc, with pull quotes and a heartfelt ending. I pulled it to post on medium for my sweet side hustle, you don't deserve my prose. Take your "quotes" and use them to run NixOS on OpenBSD.