Indeed, building from source is falling out of fashion, with everyone creating a package manager these days. I find some of these very opaque, for example Rust

Indeed, building from source is falling out of fashion, with everyone creating a package manager these days. I find some of these very opaque, for example Rust has it’s own package manager which downloads and runs binaries at its own discretion. https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs