cerement, 1 year ago

• xkcd: Standards
• one of the most unappreciated aspects of any package manager is how they handle dependency resolution – the modern formats (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage) “solve” the problem by completely ignoring it altogether and just shoving everything-and-the-kitchen-sink into one blob – which works great as long as storage remains cheap or you’re not trying to develop for embedded systems
• GNU has a package manager – and it’s being used in a current distro
• GNU development tends to be glacial even compared to something like Debian – the GNU kernel is 33 years old at this point …