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> there isn't one way of doing it that is clearly superior to other ways.

Absence of a clear winner doesn't mean doing nothing is the best strategy.

> There are plenty of working versioning solutions to choose from, pick the one you like the best.

Unfortunately, that doesn't compose.

The whole point of a package manager is to deal with acquiring dependencies and their transitive dependencies. If the ecosystem doesn't agree on a single package manager, you can't handle transitive dependencies.

What do you do when you want to use four packages, each of which uses a different package manager for its dependencies?




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