There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable). I gather that functional is meant to encompass more than those two pr

There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable). I gather that functional is meant to encompass more than those two properties; I just didn't want to list them all. What bugs me a little is that there are Programming Languages folks that are into functional programming and Computer Systems folks that work on things like filesystems. I liked Systems in college. It seems like the PL camp has somehow found a way to rename systems concepts that already had names and call them functional.