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Slightly off topic but we need to normalize the ability to patch external dependencies (especially transitive ones). Coming from systems like Yocto, it was mind boggling to see a company bugging the author of an open source library to release a new version to the package manager with a fix that they desperately needed.

In binary package managers this kind of workflow seems like an afterthought.



nixpkgs shines especially bright in this exact scenario




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