I'm not saying it solves every problem for everyone, but have you looked at Nix? I've found it to be great for portability (at least on other Linux distros), an

I'm not saying it solves every problem for everyone, but have you looked at Nix? I've found it to be great for portability (at least on other Linux distros), and you can easily install anything from stable nixpkgs packages to Git repos. I'm currently using it to manage OS packages and development dependencies for some of the projects I work with (a couple at Work™).