Debian discusses vendoring—again

Posted Jan 13, 2021 2:49 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
Parent article: Debian discusses vendoring—again

A thing to consider: Debian's dependency resolution machinery is already barely adequate. If you add several packages that have complex library dependencies, then the satisfiability solver is just going to die completely.

This already can happen during complex upgrades, and thousands of JS/Go packages will just make it inevitable.

Debian discusses vendoring—again

Posted Jan 13, 2021 8:49 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Indeed. Whilst it’s tempting to let those who want to boil the ocean packaging individual npm modules to get on with it, it causes active harm to the rest of the project. Yours is but one example.