Probably doesn’t matter for Rust but once you start messing with random system packages that other packages depend on it becomes less than straightforward reall

Probably doesn’t matter for Rust but once you start messing with random system packages that other packages depend on it becomes less than straightforward really quick. One simple version bump can effect hundreds of packages and, if you’re not careful, bork an entire install… ask me how I know that one. —edit— Also should say that I’m fully in the package manager camp. If I want to install something that’s not in the repos I almost always find or make a package and build it locally because I don’t want random orphaned files strewn around my system folders. Unless it’s just some command line program then I usually just use it from the source directory and don’t even bother having it in my path.