I hope that whatever solutions we come up with to handle the too-many-dependencies problem don’t stifle people’s motivation to create and share new packages. It’s not a given that useful libraries are going to exist. Too much friction and people will just stop sharing code.
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Like, this random stuff is all in fontconfig and will never be used outside of it because code sharing is so bad in C. I don’t see a good reason for this.pic.twitter.com/tf8thULX6X
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What on *earth* are you talking about? Code sharing is easy in C: https://gist.github.com/ianloic/91c8c2784ea9f9db1ab07afbe1b3cf7b … If you want to distribute the code then the dependencies are automatically picked up by your packaging system (at least if you're using normal Linux stuff).
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