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diff --git a/blog/dedep.md b/blog/dedep.md index df21864..f0fa6cd 100644 --- a/blog/dedep.md +++ b/blog/dedep.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags = ["fun", "packaging"] ## Exposition In the [occasional fights] between system and language packagers, -[I'm known to take the downstream camp.][ipwhl] As an user, there are +[I'm known to take the downstream camp.][ipwhl] As a user, there are lots of things I take for granted. I install the stuff I need, occasionally upgrade the system, and everything gets updated. Vulnerability in a library used by multiple programs? Its patched version @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ express myself at work and at home. Recently on my work computer, I've switched to Guix System, which has yet many packages. Looking into the way to package programs I use and on-going efforts, I realized the colossal number of transitive dependencies -of [certain software] and the impracticality for an user union (i.e. a distro) +of [certain software] and the impracticality for a user union (i.e. a distro) to maintain such set of [micro packages] in every language. ## Confrontation @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for new side projects and it actually worked for my most recent ones: Even for such simple use cases, there are still many libraries in the wild that can handle more data formats, are more convenient to use or more performant. On the other hand the amount of maintenance needed -to keep the programs safe indefinitely for an user is much lower +to keep the programs safe indefinitely for a user is much lower thanks to the small dependency footprint. What I'm asking you to give a try in the advent days[^advent] is not as drastic. @@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ are content with older versions of your software. ## Fall and Catastrophe -I hope not. I look for [answers], not [tragedies]. -Though winter is coming, a lit De-Dependency December awaits. +I hope not. I look for [answers], not [tragedies]. Winter is coming, +join me in a De-Dependency December and save the users! [^rust]: Unless you use Rust. [^advent]: I'm not Christian, but I had fun with [AoC] and [Neopets] before. |