Is it so hard to do an 'apt-get install build-essential'? It seems a bit silly to stay on only system packages when a 'apt-get install mysql-dev && pip install

Is it so hard to do an 'apt-get install build-essential'? It seems a bit silly to stay on only system packages when a 'apt-get install mysql-dev && pip install pymysql' gets you a fresh up to date Python 3 (or 2) package in your virtualenv. Heck, if managing a bunch of virtualenvs is too much install virtualenv wrapper and just use 'mkvirtualenv yourproject'.