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Actually, package do not do the “same shit”. The misconception is derived from the idea that all package managers are the same, even though their implementation of many things may be vastly different from one another. As an example, let’s compare xbps (Void’s package manager) and Pacman (Arch’s package manager). Xbps relies on a more granular approach, utilising shared library tracking, hence why it can automatically evaluate the dynamically linked library that a binary requires, and also why it supports safer conditional partial updates as a result, whereas pacman utilises strict name matching, which relies on the maintainers to explicitly declare package-to-package dependencies, which is less granular and precise, leading to an inability to partially update your system without a high probability of system breakage. The only part of the argument that, “Package managers do the same shit,” Is the fact that they all manage packages, hence the name.
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