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I had a think about how you could best deal with this and then realised I was probably just designing a worse Nix. I think, unfortunately, the Debian model jus
by moomin 3y ago
I had a think about how you could best deal with this and then realised I was probably just designing a worse Nix.
I think, unfortunately, the Debian model just can’t scale to the sheer volume of what it’s being asked to do. And, as pointed out by one of the original posters, it’s not clear what benefit creating a common standardised version of lodash buys anyone.
- yxhuvud 3y agoDistro specific packagers are broken because the surface area and workload is too high as it is essentially n packages * m distros to maintain. Language specific packagers are broken because they can't express dependencies across the language barrier in a good and automated way. The latter seems easier to solve as long as there is someone that actually wants to solve it. Currently the language packager maintainers doesn't seem to be interested in a common solution (understandably, as it is a very complex problem).
- smilliken 3y ago> Language specific packagers are broken because they can't express dependencies across the language barrier in a good and automated way. > The latter seems easier to solve as long as there is someone that actually wants to solve it. This is solved by Nix. Packages of any type can depend on eachother.