📦 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 ｣