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by de_watcher 2416 days ago
It's not about the ease of use (you need just a couple of lines in CMake to trigger the pkg-config scripts that every lib in the distribution has). It's about the people who work hard on maintaining the distributions. That's where the quality comes from.

And not only for the libraries:

http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/