> The fundamental problem is the difference between Curated and Uncurated packaging systems Exactly this! It is expected from linux distros that they have cura

> The fundamental problem is the difference between Curated and Uncurated packaging systems Exactly this! It is expected from linux distros that they have curated packaging. I think that is good and I really expect it to stay that way. Whether you want curated or uncurated packages depends on the use case. As the user of a program, I definitely want curated packages. As the developer of a program, I want to specify myself which version of a dependency I want to develop against and I don't want to be hindered by the linux distro in doing that. I do think that developers in that context are not always supported that well in linux distros. And on the other hand, I do think that tools supported by the programming language can assist in that scenario. (for example installing multiple versions of the compiler and runtime in the users home directory and being able to easily switch between those versions on a project basis...)