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Every server I run has been Ubuntu LTS since 14.04. I always read articles like this and wonder, "what are people who have this problem running?". Especially now-a-days where web services are always packaged up into Docker containers.
By 2015 I would have readily agreed to something like "It's the promised land where dependency hell and version conflicts are mere whispers of the past. Just imagine the pure bliss of a package management utopia that will make you question your life choices up until this very moment.".
Who are these people having dependancy issues now? And what are they running?