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What does that prove? The six dependencies are probably an order of magnitude larger than the NPM ones. If anything, lots of small dependencies is more Unix-y
by efdee 6y ago
What does that prove? The six dependencies are probably an order of magnitude larger than the NPM ones.
If anything, lots of small dependencies is more Unix-y than one big dependency.
- Shared404 6y agopip's download size is 47.6 kB, npm's is 579 kB. pip's installed size is 194 kB, npm's is 3,413 kB. All numbers are from Pop!_OS apt.
- filleduchaos 6y ago> If anything, lots of small dependencies is more Unix-y than one big dependency. Of course, as evidenced by much-used programs such as curl and git having 400 dependencies each and OpenSSL being shipped as separate libraries for every single crypto function.
- necrotic_comp 6y agoIf all of those dependencies are maintained by different teams, then it widens the surface area for unexpected bugs. For something where you need security (i.e. a decentralized chat platform), this could be problematic.