>This already does exist: Conan, for example. And cppget for build2. But is there consensus that conan.io or cppget have become industry-wide Schelling Points?

>This already does exist: Conan, for example. And cppget for build2. But is there consensus that conan.io or cppget have become industry-wide Schelling Points? For example, I searched both repos and neither have popular dependencies like Qt nor ffmpeg. Therefore, "conan install ffmpeg/4.2.2" isn't going to work. Thus, large non-trivial projects would only be able to use a package manger like Conan/cppget for some dependencies but not all. In Javascript land, npm is so pervasive that it can be "one-stop shopping" for fetching all js dependencies. Likewise, not only is someone paying the light bills for "crates.io", it also has instant canonical status within the Rust community. Conan doesn't have comparable mindshare in the C++ ecosystem. This is a common interpretation of the question "Why doesn't C++ have a package manager?"