&gt; At a base level, I want to just not have to care whether I need to &quot;brew install&quot;, &quot;gem install&quot;, or &quot;npm install -g&quot; something: just give me one namespace and put everything I need in it once. If the tool could do just that, I&#x27;d be sold.<p>That&#x27;s why I tend to use Arch these days, almost all the npm, pip, etc. packages are in the AUR, and I can <i>generally</i> rely on yaourt and the AUR to compile and install it successfully about 90% of the time these days.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve never understood why there isn&#x27;t a &quot;meta-package manager&quot; that gives you one OS-and-platform-neutral CLI tool for invoking whatever the most relevant package management tooling would be, and then polyfills in the differences.<p>That would be <i>very</i> nice. I remember something a few months ago about a windows CLI package manager called &#x27;chocolatey&#x27;, or something similar. I imagine that and powershell would enable us to finally have a <i>true</i> independent package manager at last.