> Works out of the box until you're missing a distro package that is required to build a dependency
With decently-maintained packages on PyPI, i.e. shipping prebuilt wheels for the most common architectures, that's no longer a problem - unless you insist in using the distro package-manager, in which case you should pick it up with the distro people. If you stick to pip+venv, on most common architectures, these days chances are you only need a simple `install`.
> I am not a fan of languages having their own package management system that has not integration with the distro one
You must feel miserable then, considering it is pretty much all modern ones. Go, Rust, Node, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, even C# and friends...
There will always be tension between what developers want (the library released yesterday and can be forever tweaked) and what OS/sysadmins want (the library that has been tested for months and can be locked down). This is why platform-agnostic delivery systems for developers are so popular, and it is not going to change any time soon.
With decently-maintained packages on PyPI, i.e. shipping prebuilt wheels for the most common architectures, that's no longer a problem - unless you insist in using the distro package-manager, in which case you should pick it up with the distro people. If you stick to pip+venv, on most common architectures, these days chances are you only need a simple `install`.
> I am not a fan of languages having their own package management system that has not integration with the distro one
You must feel miserable then, considering it is pretty much all modern ones. Go, Rust, Node, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, even C# and friends...
There will always be tension between what developers want (the library released yesterday and can be forever tweaked) and what OS/sysadmins want (the library that has been tested for months and can be locked down). This is why platform-agnostic delivery systems for developers are so popular, and it is not going to change any time soon.