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by aa-jv 147 days ago
^ This.

Plus, we already have great C package management. Its called CMake.

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CMake is not a package management tool, it is a build tool. It can be abused to do package management, but that isn't what it is for.
It's a perfectly cromulant package manager.
That's not great, that's horrible. It only helps windows users, which are used to even worse horrors. autotools and pkgconfig is fine.
I hate autotools, but I have stockholm syndrome so I still use it.
I hated auto tools until I had to use cmake. Now, I still hate auto tools, but I hate cmake more.
Its not so hard once you learn it. Of course, you will carry that trauma with you, and rightly so. ;)