[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Unfortunately, I don't have a great alternative to offer. The obvious approach is to either let the users handle dependencies (which you can also do with ugit) or write package definitions for every major distribution. And if I were the author, I wouldn't want to do that for a small side project either.

Well... There's nix. Complete packaging system, fully deterministic results, lots of features, huge number of existing packages to draw from, works on your choice of Linux distro as well as Darwin and WSL. All at the tiny cost of a little bit of your sanity and being its own very deep rabbit hole.

[Cu3PO42]

I do love Nix, and I think much more people should use it, but I don't really consider that a good alternative in the context of my original comment.

I'd argue writing a Nix derivation isn't that different from writing a package definition for any one Linux distribution. It solves the distribution problem for people who use that particular distribution/tool, not everyone. Now, Nix can be installed on any distribution, but if I was going for widespread adoption, I might point to Nix being a solution, but I probably wouldn't advertise it as the main one.