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How can you "accidentally shoot yourself in the foot" with a Linux package manager? Would be curious to know what's the point as this never happened to me. In
by still_grokking 4y ago
How can you "accidentally shoot yourself in the foot" with a Linux package manager?
Would be curious to know what's the point as this never happened to me. In almost 25 years of Linux usage.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoMost commonly, dependency conflicts. Probably the most well known example of this was Linus of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel accidentally rendering his Pop!OS install unusable by installing Steam. The second most common way is installing random packages from the internet in attempt to get something working. This is one I ran into years ago trying to get audio working under Fedora on some random laptop.
- still_grokking 4y agoWhat are "dependency conflicts"? Something like that could probably only happen on a broken OS, I guess. Pop!OS? Isn't that a FrankenDebian in the first place, so all bets are off anyway? https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Frank... > The second most common way is installing random packages from the internet […] How any package manager on any OS could prevent breakage when the user tries hard to break the system at will? Now I'm a little bit confused.