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Because general purpose package managers suck at dealing with the concerns of individual programming languages. E.g. installation paths, virtual environments, different compilation methods, etc.

And yet all these nifty package managers can't even seem to get things as simple and long solved as permissions straight. Even autoconf sets permissions better than, say, pip, where I have to remember to check my umask before I "sudo pip install something".




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