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Err, because it's the job of the package manager to prevent this exact situation from happening... Packages are not permitted to overwrite data files or config

• jcelerier 6y ago
  Yes, and this is a behaviour that prevents various use cases, hence we need different tools with better isolation, hence docker. > Enforcing consistency and ownership with a central database is Assuming a lot of things very wrongly. My distro maintainer's idea of consistency may be very different from mine - it's not the system that matters, it's the freakin apps because running this is the only reason we buy computers for, and it happens that you need to run two apps which would be entirely incompatible on the same system (if I take my past life music production experience, for instance you really really want to keep using the same version of a software for a given project. But you can have a dozen different projects in flight which all require different versions of the software used. Try installing 12 different versions of gimp or ardour on Linux without something like appimage :))