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As a nixpkgs maintainer I can't tell you how painful Bazel is for packagers. The difficulty of substituting dependencies. Unstable hashes of fetched dependency
by ris 4y ago
As a nixpkgs maintainer I can't tell you how painful Bazel is for packagers. The difficulty of substituting dependencies. Unstable hashes of fetched dependency sources. The infeasibility of building bazel itself fully from source...
- numbsafari 4y ago"substituting dependencies" sounds like an absolute nightmare for an upstream software provider.
- ris 4y agoAh the upstream "we know everything and we will control everything" provider. Who doesn't maintain stable branches with security backports for their bundled dependencies, includes mystery binary dependencies, doesn't care about anything but the main two architectures, expects users to be fine with having seventeen copies of ffmpeg on their systems, will not let their tool work on a musl-based system...