Dragon Tea
Dragon Tea — A separate software dependency required for a piece of software one wants to build and/or run that is:
- Excessively difficult to find and hidden in some dark corner of the Internet.
- Excessively difficult to build.
- Excessively difficult to integrate into build process for the software one wants to build/run.
- Any combination of the first three.
Dragon Tea often takes the form of an obscure shared library or Yet-Another-Build-Environment, and usually tends to cause as much or more grief than conveniance it was intended to provide.
Etymology: Dragon Tea was named after the imagery of a mystical ancient Chinese cure to any ailment that one can only be found in the darkest, scariest, most out-of-the-way section of Chinatown on a full moon when all the planets line up, and having as much potential to kill the patient as it has to cure them.