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Nixing Technological Lock In – Economics from the Top Down

I take a dive into the world of software and look at the problem of managing dependencies. From the Unix design, we've inherited many problems. Can we nix them with 'Nix'?

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Package Manager Tier List
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Package Management Systems Mess

The focus of this post is on “universal” package management systems. There are a lot of these. Some make sense but a lot of them are very flawed and just makes package management more difficult on a system. Learning Normal Package Managers Normal package managers like apt and pacman can sometimes be annoying too. It means that if you use various different distributions that are designed to work well with a specific package manager and are different from each other, it means you end up having to read the manual of all of them and having to remember more crap to do the same thing.