• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    If you tell me to install an end-user facing application with a programming language’s package manager, I’m out. Like, Adafruit was at one point recommending a Python IDE for their own implementation of micropython called Mu, and the instructions were to install it with Pip. Nope. Not doing that.

    • tetris11@feddit.uk
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      2 hours ago

      Me: I wanna try this node program, how do I install it?

      Node: Well first you need to download these 100 node packages using your system package manager before you can use my package manager.

      Me: And then I can install node packages at the user-level?

      Node: Oh you poor sweet summer child. At the directory-level, of course!

      Me: Oh okay. Is… is all this highly necc-

      Node: It’s better this way.

      • zbyte64@awful.systems
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        Annoyed Maintainer: fine, here’s a Docker file. Stop filing bugs about how you can’t install node.