> I've been using Debian/Ubuntu for 15+ years and never really experienced dependency hell.
Debian (or derivatives) too here and once in a very rare while I encounter some dependency hell.
IIRC the last problematic one was trying to add JPEG XL support to Emacs. Emacs uses ImageMagick under the hood to display pictures (for example from image-dired) if I'm not mistaken. But the version of ImageMagick shipped with the latest Debian stable (Bookworm) doesn't support JPEG XL yet.
Something like that.
It does happen but I do agree that it's highly uncommon.
> Why would I want to roll a system back to an (definitely insecure) state of a few months ago?
Debian (or derivatives) too here and once in a very rare while I encounter some dependency hell.
IIRC the last problematic one was trying to add JPEG XL support to Emacs. Emacs uses ImageMagick under the hood to display pictures (for example from image-dired) if I'm not mistaken. But the version of ImageMagick shipped with the latest Debian stable (Bookworm) doesn't support JPEG XL yet.
Something like that.
It does happen but I do agree that it's highly uncommon.
> Why would I want to roll a system back to an (definitely insecure) state of a few months ago?
A just question!