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Re:The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) by PittleyDunkin on Sunday December 22, 2024 @02:57PM (#42488638)
> You can still use pip inside pyenv or similar.

That seems to be the worst of all possible worlds.

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Re:The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) by lucasoshiro on Sunday December 22, 2024 @03:29PM (#42488833)
Perhaps not the best, which could be maybe something like Nix. But this is the opposite of what we have that in Mac
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Re:The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) by PittleyDunkin on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:40AM (#42495156)
I think my point was:

> Pacman would install the system-wide stuff

Most system-wide stuff is userspace. I was more referring to a divide between the OS-core (kernel, drivers, init scripts) and userspace. Upgrading userspace should not incidentally not allow the system to boot.

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