"Zebediah Figura (she/her)" zfigura@codeweavers.com writes:
I know that dependency management (and ABI compatibility, for that matter) has fallen out of style in some circles, in favor of statically linking everything or shipping all your dependencies, but I really don't think that's a good thing, it has easily visible negative effects, and while I don't really want to get into an argument over it I also don't want to see us adopt that philosophy without question.
It may be questionable from a philosophical standpoint, but that's the world we live in. Linux distros don't care about backwards compatibility, and I have no reason to believe that this is going to change, or that they would do a better job with PE packages.
And honestly, building our dependencies as PE and linking them statically would make things so much easier for everybody, that there would need to be strong practical reasons to go out of our way to start relying on distro packages for this. A general dislike of the approach is not good enough IMHO.