1000 years ago in the Package Management devroom at FOSDEM 2018 I gave a talk entitled "How To Make Package Managers Cry", where I presented a range of techniques that open source software projects can apply to make the life of package managers utterly miserable.

In many ways, the world is a different place since then... Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Open source enthusiasts have come up with many more and even better ideas!

Come and learn about the creative yet tremendously effective ways in which open source software projects (and the broader ecosystem) have taken things to the next level to make package managers scream.

You may also get to know a couple of tools that (for some reason) try to counter these best practices, to great dismay of the open source software community.

If you too want to make package managers scream, don't miss this talk...