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> package management belongs to the os Os package managers do a fundamentally different task than dependency management tools used in development. They ship a
by exDM69 2y ago
> package management belongs to the os
Os package managers do a fundamentally different task than dependency management tools used in development.
They ship a bunch of applications and the libraries you need to run the applications.
If you need different version of libfoo than e.g. Firefox does, you're out of luck.
Need to support a customer with an older release which needs a different version of libfoo? Not gonna happen.
Unless you're talking about Nix or Guix, your OS package manager is not a substitute for a dependency management tools.