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[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 01:45:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> H.S. Teoh also talks about arsd. This is also available on 
> code.dlang.org (though not exactly built for it), but the 
> mechanism of copying license compatible code into your project 
> so you can maintain it doesn't depend on it being outside of 
> code.dlang.org. You can do that with anything! D modules are 
> pretty movable.

In theory yes, but in practice it can be very difficult because 
of the size of the dependency graph.

You import foo which needs bar which needs baz which needs joe 
and sally which need fred, tom, dick, and harry... it is very, 
very easy to fall down that rabbit hole and package managers make 
it look enticing.

Heck, even I am very, very tempted to introduce a few base 
modules to my libs, especially now that I use dmd -i more so it 
would be almost transparent. And I probably would have already if 
I didn't type out my modules each time for so long.

So my policy isn't to package dependencies, it is to *eliminate* 
them. So the individual files mostly stand alone. You can import 
one without needing the others, not even from the same repo.