Sick of "many dependencies" framing
Sick of "many dependencies" framing
Posted Feb 11, 2026 13:09 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: Sick of "many dependencies" framing by mjg59
Parent article: FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI
The larger dependencies might have more maintainers, each maintaining a specific part of the large dependency, so even though it's one library, you might need to interact with multiple maintainers. On the other hand some smaller dependencies might have the same maintainer. The number of maintainers should scale with the amount of code, not the way it's organized.
