What about setting up a new environment correctly instead?

Says the man that just copied and pasted, then checked in 800mb of shitty angular dependencies just to get Jenkins to be able to build his inherited project.

It's ok, they don't pay me enough to support a family and don't give a shit about this project, and it's for internal use.

Meanwhile as a guix+nix user i can just build it against that old library version because nothing can conflict with each other anyway

I remember when games would't work with wine, complaining about some dll, I would get it from some random shady site and drop into the wine system dir. Some of the times, it worked, to even my own surprise

In my experience, this works about 25% of the time and is cause for extreme nervousness about what will happen if it tries to call a function that isn't actually present in the version it has been fooled into accepting.

It's never actually formatted my entire system even when it's gotten me a little further, perhaps to a different sort of crash, but that fear is always there.

Apparently sometimes you have to remove symlinks to make programs load. I had a very weird bug that made a library fail to load even if the symlink was good. I wrote a bug report to bugs.debian.org and they told me to remove the symlink. That fixed it, wtf

Daily nixos behaviour

The most junk hack I ever did (that somehow worked) was replacing a Tensorflow 1.x library set with the Tensorflow 2.x library set and keeping the original 1.x symlink so that the software using it would think it's still the 1.x. .so file lol.

I presume the API had some deprecated fallback for poorly migrated software, which is why it worked without complaints.

Also bazel is by far the worst build system I have ever used.

CKAN (mod manager for kerbal space program) created a multi month long battle for me because it started making copies of the original game for mod installs with symlinks to the original game files rather than just copying it outright, this made it impossible to boot certain mods because part of their first time set up was overriding files. Eventually I realized what the problem was and just manually copied the files in to the folder before loading up the mods for the first time.

WHICH IS INFURIATING! The whole reason I made new game installs was so that shit could be overwritten without breaking the base instal! WHY THEY HELL WOULD IT DEFAULT TO SYMLINKS FOR THAT?

Its like the Gnome extension not available for your version, so you just edit the file to have your version in its list. Usually works

Guys do not do this, it's gonna cause a mess further down the line.

"The problem with creating these links is that they aren't managed in any meaningful way. If that library is removed, the link becomes broken. If the library is upgraded, it may encounter an error because of the link that it doesn't expect to be there."

https://askubuntu.com/questions/461706/is-it-okay-or-not-to-symlink-libraries-to-overcome-cannot-open-shared-object

Me injecting the makemkv libraries into handbrake/ vlc

Reminds me of when I abused LD_LIBRARY_PATH and installed a Linux from scratch distro on a headless test server that no one was using. I got it all the way to x11 forwarding a full i3 environment without super user privileges.

Why do we even need dynamic linking if we have deduplicating file systems?

What in ln - s good name are you suggesting. Any and all uses of ln - s /usr/lib/something.so.7 /usr/lib/something.so.6 is merely accidental!

As a lay-person, reading these memes and comments, and understanding nothing, is probably the biggest factor that's made me decide that, while I hate windows, I'll never feel comfortable using Linux. I mean, seriously, how much of the time are you frustratingly troubleshooting stuff? I just want something like Windows that won't shove ads and ai bullshit at me and won't brick my laptop after updates 😭