Amitai Schleier

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Your periodic reminder that

- You depend, every day, in dev and in prod, on software that behaves differently from version to version
- Homebrew doesn’t work on Linux, apt-get doesn’t work on Mac, not all computers are x86
- Your time is valuable
- #pkgsrc exists

LOL if your package manager can't:

- Install from binaries
- Build from source
- Hide undeclared dependencies from builds
- Use another compiler
- Intercept all calls to cc, ld, libtool, etc. (https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/joerg/eurobsdcon2009/wrapper.html)
- Run as root or non-root
- Run on a different OS
- Provide quarterly stable releases
- Offer nearly 20,000 packages

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