A twisted maze of dependencies - rachelbythebay - #DependencyHell

[gadget42]

this was just too good not to share!

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/02/16/deps/

sharing is caring

[mocore]

reminds me of the phrase `first as tragedy then as farce `

first...
"(Future) of npm packages in nixpkgs?" : https://discourse.nixos.org/t/future-of-npm-packages-in-nixpkgs/14285/2

[gadget42]

thanks, i enjoyed reading that

[mocore]

no problem !

..i read
>| Many of us look down on language specific package managers

@  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01681.html

and it reminded me of the theme of this topic

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on a *tangent* wrt package managers
"Using Pkgsrc to Install Software in Tiny Core " ~ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26517.0.html

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&& also relevant but more generally so is "The Mess We're In" ~ Joe Armstrong

"the number of posible states 3 varables in javascript can have is grater than the number of atoms on the planet"

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4