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by wwweston 2548 days ago
This. It's not that I want to avoid any dependency -- I'm more than happy to use a well-crafted library or tool that provides an abstraction that neatly covers a problem domain. But at some point the depth and complexity of the dependency tree can make it difficult for a package manager to keep in a correct state, which speaks to the opacity anyone who attempts to manually map it is going to end up confronting.