I sincerely hope that this does not happen, but it's a matter of shaping the culture appropriately. We explain our motivations for not having one and re-enforce

I sincerely hope that this does not happen, but it's a matter of shaping the culture appropriately. We explain our motivations for not having one and re-enforce that through the community and hope that this prevents people from building or adopting third-party package managers. Should the situation arise regardless, I will make some attempt to address it by defining upstream standards and perhaps blessing an implementation, but I hope very much that we won't have to. I will also point out that Hare's approach is similar to C, and no attempts to make a C package manager have caught on. It's also helped by the fact that Hare does not support proprietary operating systems IMO.