> dependency management tool for C++ is the system's package manager The system package manager has a different purpose than a "development" package manager.

> dependency management tool for C++ is the system's package manager The system package manager has a different purpose than a "development" package manager. The system packages are supposed to give you a consistent set of libraries needed to support the application shipped by the distro. If a package you depend on for daily work, say Firefox, requires libfoo-1.0 and your project needs libfoo-2.1, you're screwed. Similarly if you're supporting an old release myapp-1.0 for some customers and it needs libfoo-1.0, but at the same time you're working on myapp-2.0 which needs libfoo-2.1, you're out of luck. The system package manager just doesn't cut it for development work.