> Just give your users a manual on how to install gems (or pip, or whatever) and let it be.

Uh... that might work for one language, but for 10? 20? And some poor sysadmin is supposed to use all these disparate tools to install security fixes too?

And you're forgetting that there are "end-user" programs that depend on those libraries as well, so they really do need to be packaged up.

> That said, Zed is blowing this way out of proportion.

That goes without saying.