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      10 months ago

      that only works until you need Lua 5.4 which has conflicting dependencies aaand now im on NixOS

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        10 months ago

        Couldn’t you just install it in a container? Distrobox makes it easy to get something like Fedora which has newer packages.

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          10 months ago

          if i wanted containerized environments, i would pick alpine, but it all makes most trivial things so much more complicated — i just want global install dang nabbit, just keep all your sandboxing on process level controlled by the kernel, give me my userspace freedom