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0 pointsElectricalUnion3y ago0 comments

What happens when your distribution only have old versions, or worse, no versions of the libraries you need? You hoop distribution? You layer another distribution like Nix or Anaconda over your base distribution? You give up and bundle another entire distribution in a container image?

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bombolo3y ago

You make a package for the thing you need.

ElectricalUnionOP3y ago

So the "solution to packages" is to make your own package with someone's else package?

If it's that simple, how come no one already did all that work for us?

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bombolo3y ago

You make a package for the thing you need.

ElectricalUnionOP3y ago

So the "solution to packages" is to make your own package with someone's else package?

If it's that simple, how come no one already did all that work for us?

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