This is the primary reason I'm averse to languages and ecosystems that rely on package managers. I have never had a good experience where these things aren't just constantly breaking. Stack/cabal, cargo, pip, npm/yarn, gem. Scattering files across my filesystem and having extremely brittle configs that shatter the ecosystem into a billion pieces at seemingly random intervals. A problem exacerbated by these package managers often being more complex than the compiler/interpreter itself. Luarocks is probably the least problematic, and that's mostly because it hosts really simple and self-contained software.
Say what you will about the old school way of manually building and copying shit around, at least when something breaks I don't have to spend a couple hours keelhauling a bloated toolchain in a debugger for mutiny.
Say what you will about the old school way of manually building and copying shit around, at least when something breaks I don't have to spend a couple hours keelhauling a bloated toolchain in a debugger for mutiny.