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by seba_dos1 4 days ago
> in a world where everyone relies on npm, cargo, etc.

Only certain niches do. No Debian package can connect to the Internet while being built, and the Debian Archive contains vast amounts of software that makes a computer useful.

Reliance on npm, cargo, etc. makes it harder to package certain things, but in general they're the exception rather than the rule.