My sixth day with Haiku: Under the hood of resources, icons, and packages
I value probono&#x27;s opinion on these things because he has a similar disdain for package managers as I do and a similar conception of the way things should be. Unfortunately he has so far only confirmed my belief that adding a package manager to Haiku just made things more complicated. Sure, he recommends some behind-the-scenes magic that can make it a little better, but that&#x27;s never going to be as good as just being simple in the first place.<p>Also disheartening (though not at all surprising) is the developer response to this: &quot;We optimized for the most usual usecases here. If there is actually a demand for this beyond one user, we can implement&quot;. That&#x27;s my problem with &quot;magic&quot;, it only appears to work the way you expect until your usecase falls outside of the expected, then the illusion is destroyed.<p>The HVIF format sounds like a really good idea. If I ever get around to making my own desktop environment, which is looking more and more likely to be the only way I can escape the dystopia laid out for personal computing&#x27;s future, I might use it.