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by prodigal_erik 5558 days ago
Installing from source has no relationship to package management. Even if we compile both library L and application A from tarballs, we're still doomed if there's no database entry somewhere to warn the sysadmins that switching major versions or uninstalling L may blow up A which depends on it.

Glad to see someone else building real OS packages (it's not hard!) rather than hoping that nothing happening outside their single-language ghetto can hurt them.