Bassi: Dev v Ops

Emmanuele Bassi writes about themismatch between the traditional distribution packaging model and whatthe world seems to actually want. "The more I think about it, the less I understand how that ever worked in the first place. It is not a mystery, though, why it's a dying model.When I say that 'nobody develops applications like the Linux distributionsencourages and prefers' I'm not kidding around: Windows, macOS, iOS,Electron, and Android application developers are heavily based on theconcept of a core set of OS services; a parallel installable blocks ofsystem dependencies shipped and retired by the OS vendor; and a bundlingsystem that allows application developers to provide their owndependencies, and control them."