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by seagreen 3398 days ago
Consider this situation: three different developers are working on the same application. They should all have the exact same dependencies installed, right? Therefore they should be working of of a freeze file of some kind.

Why use an entirely ad-hoc freeze file when you can start from a known-working snapshot (that some of them might already have installed on their machines!) and modify it from there. I find this the perfect option in this kind of situation, and so object to saying that stack is just for non-experts.