Re:Winding down my Debian involvement
by bhaak on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:00AM
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For example proper runtime dependency management?
Try updating a single homebrew package to a new major version and watch the other homebrew packages depending on it breaking.
To be fair, that's not a problem unique to homebrew. Gentoo used to break runtime dependencies, too. Although that was a long time ago. Nowadays libs used by other programs are preserved and only deleted when all dependencies have been updated, so breakage no longer occurrs.
Try updating a single homebrew package to a new major version and watch the other homebrew packages depending on it breaking.
To be fair, that's not a problem unique to homebrew. Gentoo used to break runtime dependencies, too. Although that was a long time ago. Nowadays libs used by other programs are preserved and only deleted when all dependencies have been updated, so breakage no longer occurrs.