The distro package manager isn't integrated into the prominent c/c++ build systems such as autotools and cmake. There's a good bit more friction involved in mak

The distro package manager isn't integrated into the prominent c/c++ build systems such as autotools and cmake. There's a good bit more friction involved in making sure the relevant libs are installed and put into the place the build system can figure out since those build systems aren't also integrated into the third party package discovery and installation. I'm not saying cargo makes this perfect, I'm saying it's a lot easier to add a line to Cargo.toml vs forcing the users or other developers to ensure this is done via external mechanisms. 'cargo build' vs './configure; apt install something-missing; ./configure; apt install something-missing2; ./configure; make'