Comment by soraminazuki

What is wrong with you? You berated and name-called open source volunteers because a blog post taught you that package managers using Git are "bad." Let me be clear: a 3 minute read of a blog post offers neither moral superiority nor technical insights that surpass those of actual maintainers.

Contrary to the snap conclusion you drew from the article, there are design trade-offs involved when it comes to package managers using Git. The article's favored solution advocates for databases, which in practice, makes the package repository a centralized black box that compromises package reproducibility. It may solve some problems, but still sucks harder in some ways.

The article is also flat-out wrong regarding Nixpkgs. The primary distribution method for Nixpkgs has always been tarballs, not Git. Although the article has attempted to backpedal [1], it hasn't entirely done so. It's now effectively criticizing collaboration over Git while vaguely suggesting that maybe it’s a GitHub problem. And you think what, that collaboration over Git is "unethical"???

On one side, there are open-source maintainers contributing their time and effort as volunteers. On the other, there are people like you attacking them, labeling them "lazy" and bemoaning that you're "forced" to rely on the results of their free labor, which you deride as "slow, bug-riddled garbage" without any real understanding. I know whose side I'm on.

[1]: https://github.com/andrew/nesbitt.io/commit/8e1c21d96f4e7b3c...