[WhyNotHugo]

Yup, this kinda works.

It doesn't address the greater issue tho: that it's getting harder and harder for distributions to package things right, and provider packages for their users (evidenced by the fact that you need a second package manager just for python stuff).

[nerdponx]

How is Pip any different than Cpanm, NPM, Gem, Luarocks, Nimble, Go's thing, Cargo, whatever JVM people use, whatever Haskell people use, etc. in that regard?

Distros have a hard job, but at the same time programming language tooling devs have more "customers" than just distro maintainers.