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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by Aerbil313 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:57PM (#36625579)
> Nix only partially solves the problem by better supporting concurrent installation of multiple versions of those dependencies. But those concurrent versions would still each have to be maintained

How so? Every dependency of every dependency is in the nix store and they’re all immutable. A nix package installed will work forever because its environment can’t change. Am I not right?

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by rlpb on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:05AM (#36628676)
All deb package versions are immutable too!

Bugs and security issues are found from time to time. When that happens, every occurrence in use needs an update. If ten different incompatible versions of a package are in use, they all need to be replaced. That's more work than one per traditional distribution release.

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