[mdaniel]

> "homebrew for linux" type package manager that could safely manage software without conflicting with OS packages.

As someone who uses Homebrew for Linux, I can say that "without conflicting with OS packages" cuts both ways: fine, I get more modern stuff than apt could imagine, but having to monkey with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or -Wl,-rpath over and over gets old real fast. I have no idea why they tried to be so cute putting things in a stupid directory (/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew) instead of /usr/local like they did with Homebrew for Mac (err, not the arm64 version, where they went back to /opt/homebrew for whoknowswhy)