[saidajigumi]

Agreed. The modern ease of pulling in third-party dependencies, while wonderful in its way, has gotten so easy that even "simple" applications require automated caching infrastructure. E.g. if you just fork your top-level dependencies, you won't pick up any of your recursive dependencies.

I suppose we all need package manager and git/VCS aware recursive forking/caching tools now. E.g. works with npm, gem, etc. and recursively forks your entire dependency chain.

And to think that I managed that sort thing of entirely by hand some years back. (For C/C++ libs, then, so far more manageable.)