> Why do I want the package manager to fetch and install dependencies for a project? You don't have to do that. If you separate the task of building from the t

> Why do I want the package manager to fetch and install dependencies for a project? You don't have to do that. If you separate the task of building from the task of managing software, you can mix and match solutions for each separate task as you wish. > And I've seen makefiles with "sudo apt install libqt5core libxml2-dev ..." in them and I didn't like that. That's obviously terrible too.