Bingo, this is what I was referring to in my comment. And yes, I assume it is quite a lot of labor. But I feel that lot of this perceived friction is from people trying to cut corners and avoid doing that labor, while still getting the benefits.
the overarching dream of computing in general is for a few people to do the labour and then for everyone to benefit through the magic of free replication.
if some smart and dedicated engineers can do the work to build a tool that lets everyone trivially manage a monorepo, that is certainly the best possible situation to end up in.
Package A depends on C 1.0 and B depends on C 2.0. How much work it is to get down to one version of C in your dependencies is up to how different 1.0 & 2.0 is, and how A & B use it. But if you want them resolved, it's up to you to do the engineering to A or B.
Correct. The solution is to modify packages A and or B, which is a high cost approach (hence why FAANGs could throw warm bodies at it, but most everyone else throws their hands up in exasperation).
