These are the kinds of articles I love to see on HN!
I think it's so interesting to see how different OS' have approached these long lived operations over the years. Arguably, *nix OS' have been able to move past these problems since it appears that package management is much more of a first party concern. "Oh, you want to upgrade this utility? Well, I rely on these other things so you should update them too."
I'm a webdev so a lot of this is foreign to me w/ how it actually all functions but it's cool to read about these problems and speculate how/why they came to be and why they may only exist on certain platforms.
I think it's so interesting to see how different OS' have approached these long lived operations over the years. Arguably, *nix OS' have been able to move past these problems since it appears that package management is much more of a first party concern. "Oh, you want to upgrade this utility? Well, I rely on these other things so you should update them too."
I'm a webdev so a lot of this is foreign to me w/ how it actually all functions but it's cool to read about these problems and speculate how/why they came to be and why they may only exist on certain platforms.