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by yuriks 23 days ago
In what ways do version pining/lockfiles not solve this problem?
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Duplicate transitive dependencies throw a wrench in the lockfiles/pinning approach, since most package managers don't make it easy to install multiple versions of the same package (operating under the assumption that packages are large).

There's also a meaningful message difference when you look at a package page that says it's "done" as opposed "dead".