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    1 year ago

    Message two can also be caused by packages (or rather, package creators) with delusions of grandeur that only think that the system will stop working without them, so they rig things to threaten to uninstall the system.

    Or else someone has created too heavy a dependency on something that ought to be removable, but isn’t thanks to malice or incompetence (or both).

    We still mock Microsoft for putting too heavy a dependency (or at least removal FUD) on whatever web browser they bundle with their OSes (first IE, now Edge), and here we might have a package creator trying the same damn thing.