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by jacquesm 3578 days ago
Dependency hell for me is when I have one target depending on two or more libraries that result in conflicts that can not be resolved without resorting to butchering one or more of the libraries.

One nice example that springs to mind here is that there is a package in some linux C library that defines a 'list', which in turn conflicts with lots of other libraries and applications that also wish to define 'list' but in their own scope.

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This one is solved by namespaces.