• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    fuck electron

    On top of the compile, electron apps love to have conflicting electron version dependencies so after all of the compiling it fails on the install step (and then rolls back and fails and rolls back and fails) until you cancel it and cut out the offending packages with -Rdd before trying again.

    Seems like the package manager could detect this and offer alternatives that are not failure states, like ‘Hey, these two things will not update together do you want to leave them at the current version or only update one of them. Here are the package version combinations that will install: A, B, C. Pick one’. Resolving dependency problems is the whole entire job of package managers, after all…