> If someone still used system-wide packages that was either because a) [...] b) [...]
Or simply because they are packagers for some distro and they user want a simple way to pull-in some software by it's name, while the upstream devs imaging people cloning their public repo and run the software from the checkout in their own home, with regular pull, regularly rebuilding the needed surroundings...
Not to talking about modern systems/distro with not-really-posix vision like NixOS or Guix System...
> In a similar spirit, any Python project can be distributed as one binary
Or simply because they are packagers for some distro and they user want a simple way to pull-in some software by it's name, while the upstream devs imaging people cloning their public repo and run the software from the checkout in their own home, with regular pull, regularly rebuilding the needed surroundings...
Not to talking about modern systems/distro with not-really-posix vision like NixOS or Guix System...
> In a similar spirit, any Python project can be distributed as one binary
A single 10+Gb binary :-D