Comment by Washuu

3 days ago

> Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages.

And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.

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xenophonf  3 days ago

> quite annoying

It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.

  • thewebguyd  3 days ago

    Stable as in unchanging, sure.

    Stable can also mean "you get to keep all the bugs present in this version for the next 4+ years"

    • jandrese  3 days ago

      Or worse, the kernel moves beyond the package in the repo so a year and a half later it doesn't even work anymore.

      VirtualBox is really bad about this.