If you're doing static linking, it seems extremely trivial to get from "have a package manager" to "have a compiled binary that stands alone". Pull the source

If you're doing static linking, it seems extremely trivial to get from "have a package manager" to "have a compiled binary that stands alone". Pull the source down, compile/link it and you're good. App A and B can run with different versions of libfoo, because they're statically linked so you're good to go if slightly wasteful of code footprint. If you're expecting to do runtime dependency lookup by dynamically fetching things through the package manager, then I agree, you're gonna have a bad time.