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hexxington

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    Comment #41382086

    This is the "virtual monorepo", if you want to clone one repo and build the entire SDK product then this is the correct thing to checkout - but development work right now still hap…

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    Comment #41375797

    Me. I directly refute this hunch. Nothing to do with xbox ever entered the discussion.

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    Comment #17307885

    `dpkg -I foo.deb` tells you which control components are in a package. If it has a postinst, `dpkg -I foo.deb postinst` will show it to you.

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    Comment #14311047

    No. The Winelib implementation fizzled over a decade ago. Mono's WinForms implementation is managed, invoking a cleanroom C libgdiplus.so/dlyib for GDI+ calls

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    Comment #13107419

    > You can use whatever dependencies you'd like with Nix and Guix, that's a big reason for them to exist in the first place. To attempt to translate into Flatpak terms, the "common"…

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    Comment #13106797

    Guix solves literally zero of the issues I have, including anything I mentioned in my blog post. And you conveniently ignored the real world problems with trusting someone else's d…

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    Comment #13106463

    The thing about dependency bundling is it's the only way to guarantee that the app end users are running is the one your QA team tested against. Minor point releases of seemingly i…

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    Comment #13106384

    And the worst damage of the non-runtime components is mitigated via sandboxing.