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Arch Linux's "pacman" is exactly what you're looking for in those regards (to some degree). The only problem is that using pacman repositories instead of the language builtin ones means you're going to have issues with global installation and so on and so forth.

But you raise some really good points. I have to ponder this further.

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Of course! pacman is one of the best package managers out there (and the best I've personally used). But its developers sadly don't share in the vision of using pacman outside Arch Linux. It's a wonder it works on msys2.

It's a point I tried to raise in the past but without much success. If you want to start a project to fix this, email me (especially if it's centered around pacman - I'm an arch TU).