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I don't think a package manager solves this case. If you own a repo with software in it you'll make sure to back up everything in that repo. If part of the buil

I don't think a package manager solves this case. If you own a repo with software in it you'll make sure to back up everything in that repo. If part of the build of your code in your repo fetches something from the network that will eventually fail and you will no longer be able to build your software again. I recently had someone ping me for a build of software that I wrote >10years ago. I couldn't build the code in the repo since I didn't contain the deps in my repo and the servers my build scripts reached out to where down.

amluto 3y ago
It’s worse than just that. Say I pick Fedora as my base. Now my project is a pile of SRPMs, that need a nasty bootstrap to build (okay, this is hard to avoid), and I’m stuck using the Fedora build system. Which sucks, sorry. (Okay, at least there is only one Fedora build system.) Also a whole OS is dragged along. If I want to edit a dependency, eww, I have to commit patch files and muck with .spec files. Good times. Good tooling like the author describes could exist. No distro I’ve ever used is it. Gentoo is probably closer than Fedora, as Gentoo is actually intended to build packages as opposed to just running them.