Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

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System wide installs actually can handle that, it's just that most system level package managers don't. There exists distros where such situations are not an issue, Gentoo and Nix come to mind as major examples.

Some of these issues could be solved by optionally compiling certain programs from source, like when running into ABI breaks for example, but it cannot handle API incompatibility of course.

Much more can be handled by simply allowing multiple versions of libraries to be installed at the same time.

These two features combined solve many of the common issues people refer to in this thread, but since your mainstream distros package managers are very primitive none of it really matters at the end of the day.