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I've learnt a surprising amount by looking at how other people are packaging my difftastic project! (1) A local copy of the manual doesn't have the version (OpenBSD packaging fixes this). (2) One of my dependencies has been yanked (Void Linux packaging fixes this).

I struggle with dependency syntax. I never remember what ^1.2.3 means or how it differs from ~1.2.3. I believe both npm and cargo assign the same meanings to this notation, but it's less obvious than e.g. 1.x. 1.2.3 isn't an exact version constraint either!

Let's Be Real About Dependencies: https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies Contrasting C/C++ dependencies with languages with first-class packages (Rust, Go, JS) and finding similar level of dependencies! Perhaps modern package managers just make this more obvious.