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steel_for_humans@piefed.social 2 weeks agoOk, I will keep that in mind. I’m just wary of what you said earlier:
You can fuck up both Ubuntu and Debian’s upgrades by adding a lot of 3rd-party repos because
aptdoesn’t safeguard against external repos interfering with the core repos’ dependency graph.
You’re not the first person to tell me not to add too many external repositories on Debian for the same reason.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
In Docker’s case is a non-issue because they were careful to use completely different names for all their packages. It’s only when the external repo uses the same names as the core that the dependency resolver can get confused.
Rant:
aptshould either completely forbid external repos from using core package names (like Arch does), or look at both the package name and repo URL when deciding if a package is the same, not just package name.I’m guessing that letting external repos “hijack” a package name was once upon a time seen as a feature and then they never got around to fixing it.