> I think this requirement made sense when disk space was scarce. No, the main reason is security. I need a distro to guarantee me that the library that I use

> I think this requirement made sense when disk space was scarce. No, the main reason is security. I need a distro to guarantee me that the library that I use are going to stay the same for the next 3 to 5 years, while also receiving small targeted patches. > I think this requirement makes sense if you trust that your distro is always better at choosing the 'best' version of a dependency that some software should use than the software author. No, it just has to be better at choosing version than picking them randomly using pip. Furthermore, when thousands of developers use the same combination of libraries from a distro the stack receives a ton of testing. The same cannot be said when each developer pick a random set of versions.