[amelius]

Package management is a fundamentally hard problem, and it's not all technical.

Nowadays, before I try anything new, I mentally reserve one or two days for the inevitable problems with configuring, compiling and installing. Also, it happens regularly that the cost of trying something turns out to be too high, and I just move on to the next thing.

Of course, sometimes stuff works out of the box, but that is only in a small fraction of cases.

It is sad that it has come to this, and it makes me wonder how we'll cope in a future when software has even more layers of complexity.