Might just as well be a strength. At least you won't get these packages that will pull 309 dependencies, and that might build or not with the dependencies that

Might just as well be a strength. At least you won't get these packages that will pull 309 dependencies, and that might build or not with the dependencies that are automatically pulled or not (with a considerable chance that it doesn't). With C/C++, there's a bigger manual upfront investment if you want to integrate a library, but it might just be that you get cleaner libaries.