I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?

  • BareMetalSkirt@lemmy.kya.moe
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    9 months ago

    Not at all, each package has a regular dependency tree like on any other distro. The difference is that each package can see a different subset of dependencies so you can have multiple versions of a library. What would be a version conflict on most distros here just means you have two different libsomething side by side. The /nix/store on my desktop is roughly the same size as my Gentoo /usr.