Yup. Or at the very least, a distro package’s listed dependencies don’t show you the true dependencies a program needs to function. There are a lot of dependencies that are needed but not listed because they are installed through transitively by other packages.
Rust shows you the true scale because it’s statically linked. That being said, Rust really may use more dependencies, but directly comparing the number of dependencies can be misleading without considering the scope and focus of each dependency.
Yup. Or at the very least, a distro package’s listed dependencies don’t show you the true dependencies a program needs to function. There are a lot of dependencies that are needed but not listed because they are installed through transitively by other packages.
Rust shows you the true scale because it’s statically linked. That being said, Rust really may use more dependencies, but directly comparing the number of dependencies can be misleading without considering the scope and focus of each dependency.