Holger Levsen, on ven. 16 févr. 2018 17:25:06 +0000, wrote: > > Or we could try to embrace the multiple-library-versions-in-the-same-root > > issue like distributions such as NixOS and Guix do. > > you can use their package managers, and thus these features, on Debian > today. there's also docker containers and other options if you want to > use bundled "stuff".
Which is where Debian (and other distributions which care about freeness, security, etc.) has lost relevance for these use cases. And I see a lot of growth in the use of this stuff, to the point that I wonder who will still care about the underlying distributions: will young developers really care about the ground? I see more and more READMEs on github telling to just use pip install or such, the host distribution is basically only used to provide a python interpreter and/or container host. Samuel
