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> package management belongs to the os

Os package managers do a fundamentally different task than dependency management tools used in development.

They ship a bunch of applications and the libraries you need to run the applications.

If you need different version of libfoo than e.g. Firefox does, you're out of luck.

Need to support a customer with an older release which needs a different version of libfoo? Not gonna happen.

Unless you're talking about Nix or Guix, your OS package manager is not a substitute for a dependency management tools.



Fair enough. The world needs a package manager that is language agnostics and provides input to OS package managers as well as build tools (which should also be language agnostic).


And works even across UNIX and mainframe OSes without package managers....




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