A library can't depend on other libraries unless there's a strong guarantee that those other libraries will work everywhere. If you go using tons of dependencie

A library can't depend on other libraries unless there's a strong guarantee that those other libraries will work everywhere. If you go using tons of dependencies, you limit yourself on porting. If you go crazy with apt dependencies, you've probably just limited yourself to Linux, and end up with the opposite problem as shown in the article.