Re: dune and opam issues: a summary of my fuzzy understanding

> Related, how does the broader ocaml world deal with  "Laggard Term
> Stable" packaging systems that intentionally ship old code, but have
> users that somehow expect to run new code?

I think that's one of the reason one wants to use opam : you can both 
work on debian old-stable with rather old system software, and at the 
same time locally install opam with recent versions of OCaml and all 
libraries.