[dv_dt]

Short answer: apt, yum, etc have aspects of tight integration with the distribution that make it a little more difficult (not impossible) to be a "sidecar" package manager like homebrew.

Does "brew install elixir@1.14" work for you? Homebrew has its problems, one of them is something like calling out versions doesn't always work. I use brew for packages where I generally only want the latest versions, but for finer control of multiple versions, I usually hand those packages over to asdf.

And for apt,yum etc, if you want bleeding edge releases, it's usually more lag, or repackaging work than the "sidecar" package managers.

[srevenant]

calling out versions: no, that's what kindof tipped me over the edge, as trying that and it wouldn't revert.