[Spivak]

Of course you can install it. In many environments it's not considered maintainable to deviate from the distro provided and supported version. Especially when you have support contracts from your OS vendor.

If devs want something different from the distro provided libs we typically ask that they use containers or otherwise vendor them.

Ideally we would like our software to depend on the system for the bare minimum and security critical libs like OpenSSL so that Ops is free to switch out the underlying platform with minimal friction.