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You know you can have many versions of a library on your system at once, right?
As long as they don’t cause conflicts. You know dependency hell is a thing right? The reason flatpaks were thought up in the first place? Right?
Nice out of date dependencies with those lovely security vulnerabilities!
Touché
Developers shouldn’t be out of date, but yes.
That got so spicy so fast.
Besides that it's only partially true (unless we speak Nix systems) That's also not the point of it. It's more about having runtime environment that an app was built against and tested with.