Well... one may read this without irony, given that a large part of the problems users encounter actually comes from the package manager (and the applications p

Well... one may read this without irony, given that a large part of the problems users encounter actually comes from the package manager (and the applications packaging) of their distro, and a large part of the bloat is coming from their dependencies management that pulls everything it can pull even when it is not needed or wanted. After getting tired of the last years of constant updates of some packages triggering the pull a whole tree of updates of other dependent packages, I finally move back to the old way. No more package manager. I build or download stuff I want when I want it and axe the dependency tree as much as possible.