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by skybrian 133 days ago
It's not necessary because Mac applications shouldn't have any dependencies other than the OS. (Whatever additional libraries they use should be included.) This should also be true of basic developer tools. Once you're in a particular ecosystem, tools like deno, npm, or uv can handle their own dependencies.

Alternatively, you could do development in a container and use apt-get there. That's probably safest now that we're using coding agents.