Package Management Is a Wicked Problem

Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem by tonyhart7 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:57AM (#46798014)

so what is the "best" package manager humankind have right now ?????

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Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem by the__alchemist on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:16PM (#46798316)

GPOS software: Static-linked executables

Programming languages: Cargo

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Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem by nylonstrung on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:32PM (#46802576)

Nix

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Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem by deknos on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:08AM (#46806777)

they lost it, when they hardwared it with systemd.

Nothing against systemd, but hardwaring is not a good idea in that regard.

With guix, you at least install things in a container.

sadly, guix also went the non-conda-route, so you could not use it as a conda replacement only :(

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Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem by forgotpwd16 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:02AM (#46809064)

Nix is not hard coupled to systemd. There's nixpkgs support for Darwin afterall.

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