Funny because I only care about Linux on the desktop and I don't have this problem, either.
He talks about a state explosion of packages and libraries, but in practice, I don't see that it matters.
Yes, there is technically a state explosion, so you can't test every possible combination of packages. But you don't need to because they don't interfere with one another much in practice.
I won't pronounce that as universally true (I suspect some people would strongly disagree), but that's been my experience.
If you only need versions in your distro's repos then this is usually fine - although often the more obscure stuff is broken in e.g. Ubuntu repos. If you want a newer version? Things break fast.
He talks about a state explosion of packages and libraries, but in practice, I don't see that it matters.
Yes, there is technically a state explosion, so you can't test every possible combination of packages. But you don't need to because they don't interfere with one another much in practice.
I won't pronounce that as universally true (I suspect some people would strongly disagree), but that's been my experience.