📦 The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management // Andrew Nesbitt
｢ If you need libcurl or OpenSSL or zlib, you install them through apt or dnf or brew. This makes your system package manager the de facto C package manager whether it was designed for that or not. And every distro names packages differently: libssl-dev on Debian, openssl-devel on Fedora, openssl on Alpine, openssl@3 on Homebrew. Same library, four names, no mapping between them ｣
A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project
https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
#HackerNews #ArchLinux #ALPM #PackageManagement #OpenSource #Development #TechNews
Upcoming talk by me on packing #ScryerProlog in #guix in Dusseldorf, November.
https://hsd-pbsa.de/veranstaltung/scryer-prolog-meetup-2025/
Emphases from me will cover the importance of #ReproducibleResearch and the gains from how Guix is well suited to not only providing precision for configuring but longevity of software stacks
