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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
There is only one person who is competent to decide what versions of which dependencies work with a particular piece of software, and that is the maintainer of that software, not a distro maintainer.
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What you're describing is an old concept, older than linux, and it's called makefile (or similar). And it was in place where software was really complex too. "Software was simpler before" is the same that "Old times were better".