[grebc]

I don’t think people consider things from a first principles perspective these days.

“…I can't see any valid use case for a machine-global pool of dependencies…” - Rhetorical question for OP but how do you run an operating system without having said operating systems dependencies available to everything else?

[throwaway894345]

That quote is mine, so I think you’re meaning to address me?

> how do you run an operating system without having said operating systems dependencies available to everything else?

I’m not sure if I understand your question, but I’ll answer based on what I think you mean. The OS gets compiled into an artifact, so the dependencies aren’t available to the system itself unless they are explicitly added.

[grebc]

You asked what’s the point of a machine based global pool of dependencies - I answered: it’s an OS.

[throwaway894345]

An OS isn’t a machine-global pool dependencies. Strange claim.