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Right but as I said from the context it was clear he was talking about distro package managers, not language package managers.

Nix requires root (at least by default). Brew I'll give you - I didn't know you can use it on Linux. Do people actually do that enough that it works reliably?



I don't think that was clear. If they really meant that, which I honestly doubt because it would be so obviously false, then I agree with you.


> We love to praise Unix, but it wasn't built for modern multi-user use. FUSE was an after-thought. So were package managers, and they got added, but they require root.

Clearly talking about OS level package managers.




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