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1 point by CatDancer 5428 days ago | link | parent

Libraries should also be able to depend on whatever they want

Dependencies should actually be managed outside of the libraries themselves. For example, I have a library foo that depends on bar. Later a new version of Arc comes out that implements what bar did. Now foo doesn't need bar any more. But foo itself hasn't changed, so I shouldn't have to release a new version of foo just to say that it doesn't need bar with this new version of Arc.

Instead we publish dependency information about libraries. For example, I can say that foo needs bar 0 and arc 3, or just arc 4... something like:

  (needs (foo 0) (or ((bar 5) (arc3 0)))
                     ((arc4 0))))