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Distro specific packagers are broken because the surface area and workload is too high as it is essentially n packages * m distros to maintain. Language specifi
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Distro 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.