Why parrent comment was downvoted?

Major Linux distributions (Fedora/Debian/SuSE/etc.) are excellent example of proper solution for the "dependency hell" problem for C programs. JavaScript is the new C, but for web, so same solution will appear for same problem.

Debian vets the hell out of the developers, but once you're a dev you can update any package. It's a major faux pax to push an update to a package that you're not responsible for without a very good reason, but since they're all signed with the uploader's public keys this isn't a problem.

> Debian seems to have no problems with that.

Because Debian developers do not package all sort of crap.

Yeah, no. This is 90% of the reason why I stopped using Debian based distros. There's a complete lack of consistency with how they do their package management to the point that I eventually started to build most things from source. Too many outdated and unpatched packages.

Archlinux is a bit better, but the crazy amount of timeouts and the everything-goes mentality is getting pretty frustrating.

CentOS/rhel isn't much better, for what it's worth. Dear god, those repos....