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I would be interested to know why you call purely functional package management "idiotic", given that one of its main goals is to solve the problem of version h

I would be interested to know why you call purely functional package management "idiotic", given that one of its main goals is to solve the problem of version hell? I.e., to make it easy for a developer to specify that application X should use version V of library Y, without interfering with other applications on your system?

dschiptsov 11y ago
Very simple. There is so-called atomic operations, or transactions, which are good enough to solve the problem. Any "pure functionality" in this context is plain nonsense.