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Of course they can be made to do anything but that's not what they are designed for and as a result they also build a culture that frowns upon doing that. Debia
by account42 2mo ago
Of course they can be made to do anything but that's not what they are designed for and as a result they also build a culture that frowns upon doing that. Debian and other Linux distributions would have never had the policy do handle dependency resolution themselves if contemporary build systems automatically fetched everything automatically rather than being designed to use dependencies provided by the user.