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by charliefg 4073 days ago
> Distro repos do provide many of the packages you need for development because you need to be able to compile all of the C++ applications and libraries in the distro repo, of which there are many.

I think it's more along the lines of the distro's package manager's responsibilities should be different from the language's PM. Although I do find myself in agreement with you that the distro's PM is sufficient for C/C++