It does not keep a repo list bc the CLI needs to be constantly directed to the particular repo you want to use/inspect. It doesn't default to flathub and there

It does not keep a repo list bc the CLI needs to be constantly directed to the particular repo you want to use/inspect. It doesn't default to flathub and there is no sources.list equivalent. So therefore there is no cache and it needs to constantly ping the server to do anything. This makes the whole interface incredibly sluggish to the point that it's frustrating to navigate and explore. So you end up using the crappy website (as compared to something snappy like aptitude) Frankly shared dependencies makes sense when they're sort of wide-consensus. Debian-stable or Ubuntu-LTS. Everyone is building to work with the same set of version numbers and they are all rock stable for years. Rolling shared dependencies is just a recipe for broken apps. It's just a combinatorics problem. You can't test against every combination of every version of all your dependencies. And multiversion shared dependencies .. I don't even understand the point (and why Nix has always confused me)