The operating system package manager is supposed to provide packages for libraries that are required to run the rest of the operating system. Not libraries you need for development.
Package managers for development allow things such as installing multiple versions of a library, creating "sandboxes" with specific versions of libraries, and sometimes they are also the de-facto build system for a language.
The OS package manager isn't doing the same job and has very different requirements. Not all libraries (especially ones that are usually built statically or header-only) end up in an OS package manager. Typically OS package managers don't bundle any libraries that are not required by one or more of applications in the package repository.
So no, an OS package manager doesn't cut it for C or C++ development. They don't ship all the libraries and they can't do all the things you need for serious development.
As a C and C++ developer, this pisses me off constantly. Even though most libraries are easy enough to fetch these days with Git, there's no standard way of configuring, building and installing them. And no OS package manager has ever been able to provide all the libraries I need.
Package managers for development allow things such as installing multiple versions of a library, creating "sandboxes" with specific versions of libraries, and sometimes they are also the de-facto build system for a language.
The OS package manager isn't doing the same job and has very different requirements. Not all libraries (especially ones that are usually built statically or header-only) end up in an OS package manager. Typically OS package managers don't bundle any libraries that are not required by one or more of applications in the package repository.
So no, an OS package manager doesn't cut it for C or C++ development. They don't ship all the libraries and they can't do all the things you need for serious development.
As a C and C++ developer, this pisses me off constantly. Even though most libraries are easy enough to fetch these days with Git, there's no standard way of configuring, building and installing them. And no OS package manager has ever been able to provide all the libraries I need.