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A critique of package managers

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1. dboon ◴[] No.45174284[source]
I’ve had major Nissan Altima effect with this lately. A few weeks ago I set out to make a simple C and C++ package manager that just ignores dependency hell in favor of you explicitly specifying packages. And no binaries, just build from source and use Git as a backend for managing what source maps to what builds.

Plus Lua for package recipes. It’s going really well!

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2. coldtea ◴[] No.45174497[source]
>just ignores dependency hell in favor of you explicitly specifying packages

Isn't that basically manual dependency hell?