@fiore @hipsterelectron @Lightfighter @TodePond But the upside (for me, at least) is that... it doesn't do anything unexpected, doesn't grab a bunch of extra packages and install them, doesn't touch anything outside the scope of the package I am installing, and since it's all just shell scripts it's trivial to modify if I need, like, a packge installed to /opt/ or to ~/.local/ instead of /usr/ or some other weird local change.