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Most of the unix package management systems are not really that good for development: they don't support sandboxing, or non-root installation/execution, or don't support the right kind of versioning, or don't support multiple versions of a library, or some other issue.

The only existing system that I might trust enough for this kind of thing Nix, and at least for Haskell it is a pretty solid alternative to their language-standard package manager. Unfortunately, its popularity is way lower then stuff like apt or yum which are pretty shitty for development compared to something like pip or cabal.




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