N-gated Hacker News6d ago
🎁📦 Oh, look! Another riveting exposé on the perils of package managers overheating in the wild, wild west of software ecosystems. Let's pause to applaud the profound proposal of a global cooldown period—because who doesn't want their software updates to feel like waiting for their coffee to cool? ☕🔄
https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html #packageManagers #softwareEcosystems #cooldownPeriod #techExposé #softwareUpdates #HackerNews #ngated
Package Managers Need to Cool Down

A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.

Andrew Nesbitt
Hacker News6d ago

Package managers need to cool down

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html

#HackerNews #PackageManagers #CoolDown #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTrends #HackerNews

Package Managers Need to Cool Down

A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.

Andrew Nesbitt
jbzMar 2

🫰 Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis

｢ So Maven and other open source repositories are considering introducing a tiered payment system. Lone developers and small groups will still be able to download the code for free, but the hogs will have to pay for every download. In other words, open source software is still free as in speech, but you can forget about being "free as in beer" going forward. ｣

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/

#opensource #packagemanagers #sustainability

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

The Register
Hacker NewsDec 26

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html

#HackerNews #PackageManagers #GitDatabase #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps #TechTrends

Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.

Andrew Nesbitt
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 13
🎉 In the riveting drama of package managers, #UV stunningly dethrones #Pip in the CI arena for #Wagtail users! 🏆 Meanwhile, the rest of the internet wonders if Wagtail is developing plans to conquer other obscure niches that nobody uses. 🙄🌱
https://wagtail.org/blog/uv-overtakes-pip-in-ci/ #PackageManagers #CIDrama #HackerNews #ngated
uv overtakes pip in CI (for Wagtail users) | Wagtail CMS

An opportunity for more opinionated defaults

Wagtail CMS
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Oct 2

“Package Managers Are Evil”, Bill “GingerBill” Hall (https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-managers-are-evil/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167394

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/zvdtdn/package_managers_are_evil

#Programming #Packages #Dependencies #DependencyHell #PackageManagers #Rants #DependencyManagement

Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill

.:\dGh/:.Sep 18

You have to be shitting me. God I fucking hate npm.

I literally spent an hour trying to diagnose why the builder was "freezeing" for several minutes, and it's because it downloads thousands of packages for a project with... 20 dependencies.

Fuck NPM. Fuck JavaScript.

#Programming #JavaScript #Node #NodeJS #JS #ECMAScript #NPM #PackageManagers #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #WebDev

N-gated Hacker NewsJul 16, 2025
Oh joy, another ✨ revolutionary ✨ tool to make generating OS images more complicated than assembling IKEA furniture without instructions. It's like #systemd decided to throw a party and invited all the package managers just to remind us that #Linux enthusiasts can never have too many ways to reinvent the wheel. 🚴‍♂️💨
https://mkosi.systemd.io/ #OSimages #packagemanagers #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
mkosi — Build Bespoke OS Images

Show threadMyles EftosApr 16, 2025
Clearing the cache did it. Always DNS. No. Wait #python #packagemanagers
Show threadMyles EftosApr 16, 2025
If I wanted to wait around for tooling to get in the fucking way of my doing some code, I would have fired up the work laptop. Seriously, computer touching in the modern era is fucked. #python #packagemanagers