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You can package software on Linux with specific libraries: see Flatpak and Snap.

You can manage multiple versions of shard libraries as needed by different applications: see Nix.

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noisem4ker6y ago· 1 in thread

Nix's is such an obvious and elegant solution to me that I wonder how it hasn't got much more traction.

I suspect a big part of it is people don't want to learn a subset of haskell to in order to effectively use their package manager.

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