Excepting the user to have to clean cruft to install the software they want is a terrible philosophy and not in line with Unix at all, now you've created a situ

Excepting the user to have to clean cruft to install the software they want is a terrible philosophy and not in line with Unix at all, now you've created a situation where to install "sponge" you need to place 10 other random binaries onto your machine and know enough about the process to know to delete them...