I absolutely agree that manually installing software leads to a maintainability nightmare.
How does scoop solve the problem? Is it simply by moving faster (which one could do with the less stable Debian repos), or is it doing something like isolating all shared dependencies for every package (I know this is in style these days, but I'm not a huge fan of it).
> How does scoop solve the problem?
It skips intermediate packaging steps and goes directly to the source. e.g. if the author publishes on GitHub, Scoop will request `github.com/ripgrep/releases/latest` (or whatever) and then download `ripgrep-$version.exe`. It has very primitive dependency handling, but I don't think that matters because I mostly install Go/Rust tools which are statically linked.
I honenstly think it's a genius solution. There's no wait time for updates, and you don't have to trust whatever user created the package on every version update.