[mmh0000]

Mmm. I’d argue that all shell scripts use a ton of dependencies that are different across Unix/Linux.

I. E. ‘sed -i’ is only in GNU sed. Same with ‘grep -P’.

[np_tedious]

I took my parent post as meaning the app language dependencies. Pip packages or ruby gems or "must be exactly python 3.12"

[throwaway7ahgb]

Correct but if you're in a situation where this is a issue you probably know about it and can use POSIX versions that are more portable.

Otherwise nobody thinks of it because most likely it is not being distributed.

[passthejoe]

This has bitten me many times

[EasyMark]

It’s why if my bash turns into more than a page or two I start re-evaluating it and turn it into python