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> why not just use a system-wide package manager? There is a class of developers who feel very, very strongly that updating the user's software should be their
by anonymousab 6y ago
> why not just use a system-wide package manager?
There is a class of developers who feel very, very strongly that updating the user's software should be their decision, and not the user's. For the lazy or reckless user's own good, or whatever.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoWell for what it’s worth I vastly prefer that attitude as someone who has to manage different dependencies on different projects. Sometimes it’s not up to me when one project is using Foo@13.0 and another is using Foo@27.0. Package managers which isolate that to the project or to some environment are a lot easier to manage than the system-level package managers which require you to roll that isolation yourself. Edit: and I can’t help pointing out the irony of this being a consideration on a thread about Docker.
- McTossOut 6y ago/ irony I guess it took to the middle of the thread.