Controversial #Opinion: Archinstall makes #archlinux harder to use.

If you do your install by hand, you know what was installed, you know how jankily it was done, and you know (presumably) what to look at when you screw something up in 3 years because it's been so stable you forgot you're supposed to read the news before updating.

If you use archinstall, you don't necessarily know exactly what packages were installed unless you're a particularly diligent admin. If you're using archinstall I can only assume you're not a particularly diligent admin. So when it breaks in 8 months because library Xyz.69420.so requires a manual adjustment that alpm can't handle you're SOL because you don't even know you have Xyz.69420.so on your system.

#dllhell #controversialopinion #linux #archbtw #badmins #foss #floss

Say my name: The Evolution of Shared Libraries

https://www.jocheojeda.com/2025/01/21/say-my-name-the-evolution-of-shared-libraries/

#SoftwareDevelopment #DLL #SharedLibraries #DotNetFramework #VB6 #COMComponents #GAC #GlobalAssemblyCache #AssemblyIdentity #DLLHell #CrystalReports #LegacySystems #SoftwareEvolution #DependenciesManagement #Microsoft #Windows #SystemArchitecture #VersionControl #TechnicalDebt #SoftwareDeployment #DotNetCore #ModernDevelopment #SoftwareHistory #EnterpriseDevelopment #SystemDependencies #BackwardCompatibility

The most annoying things in data analysis:

- R package/lib hell
- basic Python API instability
- conda solving envos for hours
- lustre (all about it)
- each R package having it's own class for genetic/trees/geospatial data storage.

I have freaking bingo of hitting all of them today at once.

Are there any I missed?

#rstats #conda #lustre #dllHell #PackageHell #DependencyHell
#geospatial #bioinformatics #hpc

I haven't had this much of a #DLLHell problem since before #Composer existed. It's remarkable how quickly we in #PHP take not having such problems for granted.

#Kotlin #Java

Por dios por mio, I've been working all week to lift and shift a legacy app away from using GAC DLLs to a Nuget package... and it's frustrating.

All to be able to apply a single LOC fix to an il8n bug. I'm tired 😪

#dotnet #nuget #dllhell