[Bloat] Offtopic to: New board that looks interesting

[Dave Collier-Brown]

On 2020-04-04 1:36 p.m., Dave Taht wrote:

 I've been really frustrated with the
state of distributions lately, trying to get any complex thing done
has required snaps and docker containers and I really prefer running
stuff natively when possible.



Various language development groups have run into the problem characterized by Russ Cox as, “Dependency hell is NP-complete. But maybe we can climb out.”

So they try to make it possible to run a sat solver, find an example for a single instance of a program, and seal that program hermetically away from every other system on the machine.

This make integrating anything with the program an exercise in tearing through the bubble, inserting your program, re-solving the dependency problem and re-sealing them two of up again.

--dave

[It's a solved problem, but since it was Not Invented Here, it has been dis-solved. https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/dll-hell-and-avoiding-an-np-complete-problem/ ]
<https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/dll-hell-and-avoiding-an-np-complete-problem/>

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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