@Tvorsk @eevee @whitequark i think the "there is one...

@Tvorsk @eevee @whitequark i think the "there is one canonical system version of libfoo everything on the system uses" model is fundamentally not suitable for a general purpose OS; there will always be software that needs different versions of libfoo, and as a developer it takes too much work to test against 15 different distributions

it's like how people realized "hmm, maybe installing every python library any piece of software uses into a single global namespace was a bad idea, let's use virtualenvs"

Like 12 Aug 2023 at 22:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on inherently.digital

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eevee 🦊

@hierarchon @Tvorsk @whitequark that's a weird comparison since you can install multiple versions of an .so but not multiple versions of a python library

12 Aug 2023 at 22:36 | Open on queer.party

doll! replied to eevee

@eevee @Tvorsk @whitequark most distributions that I've used only let you install one version of a package; you can have libfoo3 and libfoo4, but that assumes breakage only happens on major version changes

12 Aug 2023 at 22:38 | Open on inherently.digital