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> I've seen this situation blamed on both OS packagers or language ecosystems, but now I just think the goals between the two just are fundamentally at odds.

I hate language-specific package managers. I can see their value to packagers (less work), but they end up arguing with the platform package manager.

It's like there's a load of CS graduates churning out lots of new, better languages; but what's really needed is just one better language. Similarly we have a score of new package managers, creating incompatibilities; so we add some more package managers, to paper over the incompatibilities.

I'm inclined to the view that perhaps there are too many coders in the world, creating compilers and package managers because they can't get a job doing something useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nnxng/petition_lenna...

>>denton+(OP)
> I'm inclined to the view that perhaps there are too many coders in the world, creating compilers and package managers because they can't get a job doing something useful.

I truly hope that this outlook on the world does you better than it did me when I was younger.