>You're getting caught up in implementation details. But if a package manager is anything, it's an implementation. It's not a theoretical concept, it's a tool

>You're getting caught up in implementation details. But if a package manager is anything, it's an implementation. It's not a theoretical concept, it's a tool that a user has to smooth the process of their work. Both could just install and configure packages by hand but it's the implementation that makes a package manager useful (for one being able to run multiple versions and for another being explicitly discouraged from multiple versions). Dismissing implementation details in a tool that is designed for implementation is missing the point.