dub: should we make it the de jure package manager for D?

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 06:59:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-09-25 18:14, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> But this is all for development-time usage. To have the same 
>> tool try to
>> be an executable installation manager is another thing 
>> entirely and, in
>> my opinion quite ill-suited for dub (see related OP). Where 
>> did this
>> idea even come from??
>
> If dub doesn't install packages, why the h*ll should I use it 
> in the first place? I can just use the system package manager.

Good look getting all those small trivial libraries into official 
repositories. Actually, some distros even prohibit pure source 
packages at all.

You should install it because you are tired of satisfying build 
dependencies manually and it is a bit more robust than git 
submodules. Pretty much all.