Generally the purpose of a system package manager is to install packages for the system. I think the GP's assumption was that the context is "how do I set up a

Generally the purpose of a system package manager is to install packages for the system. I think the GP's assumption was that the context is "how do I set up a system whose primary purpose is deployment of X", not "how do I write X on a system whose primary purpose is development". Then again, I've had good mileage out of making .debs that plonk dev work and deps into /opt locally. YMMV.