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> And yes, a language with an ill-defined concept of a package in the language itself is a problem of the language, but the package managers are not making it a
by Octoth0rpe 1y ago
> And yes, a language with an ill-defined concept of a package in the language itself is a problem of the language, but the package managers are not making it any better.
If a language does not provide a definition of a package but a package manager _does_, then I would say that that package manager did make that aspect of the problem better.
- gingerBill 1y agoIt makes it worse in my opinion, not better. Because it leads to the problem that other package managers don't agree on what a package is, and it might even lead to the need for an external build system to co-ordinate all of it too. It's a never-ending problem, and is now even worse.
- dismalaf 1y agoAnd if the language does provide the definition?