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Unfortunately, if you depend on any libraries, there's a decent chance one of them depends on some support library. Possibly for just one function. And then you

Unfortunately, if you depend on any libraries, there's a decent chance one of them depends on some support library. Possibly for just one function. And then your build tool downloads the entire Internet.

thfuran 1y ago
That depends a lot on your language / build system. The easier it is to add a dependency, the more likely that is to be how they work, broadly speaking.
rjsw 1y ago
A ruby application that I will soon need to use downloads 227 packages.
- jonny211 1y ago
  That's wild. Which gem is it? Something AWS?
  - williamsmalinda 1y ago
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  - zoky 1y ago
    OP said that was for an entire app, not dependencies for a single gem. And it’s not really that many. A bone-stock Rails app includes almost 120 gems out of the box. Add a few additional gems that each have their own dependencies and you can get up to over 200 total packages pretty quick.
    - rjsw 1y ago
      It is a command-line tool for document production.
    - yetihehe 1y ago
      > A bone-stock Rails app includes almost 120 gems out of the box. Maybe it shouldn't be necessary to have 120 different external libraries just to run bone-stock app? They should be placed in standard library.