what i don't like about dub

[Imperatorn]

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 18:00:16 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 17:36 +0000, Imperatorn via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 14:01:15 UTC, Adam D Ruppe 
>> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 13:49:36 UTC, Imperatorn 
>> > wrote:
>> > > How do you propose dub would do that
>> > 
>> > By asking the system package manager.
>> 
>> Well yeah, but how without doing a lot of work
>
> If I iterpret system package manager as distribution-specific, 
> relying on system package manager is not the way. There is 
> tools like pkg- config or pkgconf that provides mechanisms to 
> manage dependencies and its required configurations to 
> link/compile the library with the dependent software.

Yeah, and also just on some platforms