I made it up at work a few weeks ago :-) We were discussing the questionable maintainability of apps and languages that insist on handrolling their own dependency management, particularly when they do it in a way that doesn't match how distros do it.
On 28 September 2012 15:23, Derric Atzrott datzrott@alizeepathology.com wrote:
After the ones about sending email and Common Lisp, we can add:
"Every app also expands until it contains a sketchy rewrite of apt-get."
c.f. Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, WordPress ...
One thing to possibly think about: compatibility of any new system with Linux distro packaging mechanisms, like apt-get and yum. The less distro maintainers have to mess with MediaWiki the better.
Wanted to send this to you directly, since it is off topic.
Where is that quote from? It is so incredibly true.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
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