[chipsy]

My dependency strategy over time has moved towards more static, project-owns-everything behavior, and specifically "one synchronization script per dependency" - including my own utilities library. The script leaves a echo of the timestamp so that I can also see when it was updated.

That way, different projects can have different versions of everything, and system environment is only important to the synchronization step - trivial to fix up if needed, trivial to copy between machines.