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by pkolaczk 664 days ago
> And no, you resolve conflicts by not having conflicts in the first place.

That means you can't use library A and unrelated library B together in the same project, even though you can use A alone and can use B alone. That's lack of orthogonality.

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No, you seriously discourage libraries from breaking compatibility by removing the possibility to hide behind different pinned versions and version ranges.