I don’t think people consider things from a first principles perspective these days.
“…I can't see any valid use case for a machine-global pool of dependencies…” - Rhetorical question for OP but how do you run an operating system without having said operating systems dependencies available to everything else?
That quote is mine, so I think you’re meaning to address me?
> how do you run an operating system without having said operating systems dependencies available to everything else?
I’m not sure if I understand your question, but I’ll answer based on what I think you mean. The OS gets compiled into an artifact, so the dependencies aren’t available to the system itself unless they are explicitly added.
“…I can't see any valid use case for a machine-global pool of dependencies…” - Rhetorical question for OP but how do you run an operating system without having said operating systems dependencies available to everything else?