I make video games. There's no such thing as a package manager that supports Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, Playstation, and Xbox. So from my perspective no. No you

I make video games. There's no such thing as a package manager that supports Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, Playstation, and Xbox. So from my perspective no. No you aren't forced into something that doesn't exist. ;) There is a line. You shouldn't include operative systems. Nor language tools (C++ compiler, Python installer, etc). Nor hardware SDKs (DirectX, OpenGL, etc). But beyond that? My vote is strongly in favor of including dependencies. Compiling OpensSSL on Windows is a god damn nightmare. I shouldn't have to fucking install StrawberryPerl. SQLite is beautiful in comparison. It's two .c files and two .h files. You can also download pre-compiled libs if you want. Almost all open source projects could easily be single file. If it can be single file then, in my opinion, it should be.