* On 2024-10-18 at 04:45 BST, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
Yet another approach could be to package all the software in the ecosystem together in one pkgsrc package. I'm not a big fan, but it would solve the dependency difficulty, I think, because then there'd be no dependencies between packages from the same ecosystem since they'd all be bundled into one monolithic package.
If they're really that bad at release versioning then this is probably the route I'd take.
If it's likely that a user will want to have multiple versions to choose from then use separate packages, pkg-20240401-1.0, pkg-20250401-1.0, etc, but if one version at a time would suffice then just pkg-20240401.
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