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CONTRIBUTING.md: be more explicit about some of our packaging reqts#60353

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this is stuff we've said to many contributors but haven't really written down

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icp1994 commented May 6, 2026

This might be off-topic for the proposed changes, but I would put emphasis somewhere that it's better to install & update packages in the user-space via language specific tools (cargo, uv etc) if possible rather than installing them system-wide via xbps. This primarily applies to self-contained "apps" which do not need global installations. Also helps the user/maintainer having to worry about conflicting dependencies with existing ones in some cases - for example python packages.

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