i should stop shitting on debian but i’m still not over that one time i tried to maintain a single package for it
@stefan being old isn’t even the problem, it’s being resistant to change
the sheer masochism it takes to put up with that kind of distro tooling in 2024
@stefan like, iirc apt technically allows swapping out the dependency resolver for something else because they wanted to make that part modular but nobody has done that work
so other distros went ahead and got SAT solvers that work really well while apt still wants to remove your entire GUI if you’re running sid and the repos aren’t consistent (because they haven’t figured that out either)
@june it was incredibly hard to do right because the tools are old and rusty. actually worse than making a windows installer package.