I love the convenience package managers provide, but I have to agree that they often include terribly out-of-date packages e.g. for Clang, LaTeX, Rust, so serio

I love the convenience package managers provide, but I have to agree that they often include terribly out-of-date packages e.g. for Clang, LaTeX, Rust, so serious users often need to resort to using other sources or special package repositories (and these are often down, discontinued etc). This is in no way meant to diminish package managers or maintainers, which have brought great positive change to Linux. Just saying there is still a lot of work ahead, too.