I think system package managers do just fine at wrangling static library dependencies for compiled languages, and if you're building something that somehow fall

I think system package managers do just fine at wrangling static library dependencies for compiled languages, and if you're building something that somehow falls through the cracks of them then I think you should probably just be using git or some kinda vcs for whatever you're doing, not a package manager But on the other hand, I am used to arch, which both does package-management ala carte as a rolling release distro and has a pretty extensively-used secondary open community ecosystem for non-distro-maintained packages, so maybe this isn't as true in the "stop the world" model the author talks about