PFpfranz·Oct 30, 2018
I know nothing about this Fedora tech (but am really curious). Windows and macOS don't mix libraries and Applications with a packaging system and Linux distros do. I've always felt like the packaging systems for each OS had very different goals and most all of the Linux distro's packaging systems had way too much overlap to warrant different tech. When you're talking about packaging systems for macOS and Windows are you talking about things like Homebrew/Chocolatey or their interface for installing applications? I just don't see other OSes handling these things any better.
I've been in the camp that language-specific package managers shouldn't have to be a thing. I'm on your side in that I think it's ridiculous that package managers have belligerent towards language-specific package managers (they'll package up libraries for language
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s, but not change their packaging system to address the needs they were trying to fill).
Like you, I maintain my own ~/.local/bin and it sucks because the next thing I want to do is message the guy next to me and say, "run this." Instead, I have to explain how to build or install everything I just did and troubleshoot any problems. But I don't see any benefits for Windows or macOS for doing this.
At larger vfx and animation studios, they all have their own packaging system they've written to manage a project's tools (here's one that's been Open Sourced[1]). I've also wanted alternative approaches, like Nix, to gain popularity.
[1] https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez