Situation:<p>I install Python locally (w&#x2F;o the OS-level package manager which doesn&#x27;t have Python 3.5 yet) and would like to install the SciPy stack which depends on a bunch of C libraries only supplied by the Linux distro I am using.<p>What I&#x27;d Like:<p>Something like npm&#x27;s package.json or pip&#x27;s requirements.txt where I can declare the semantically versioned C&#x2F;C++ dependencies of a project; doing conan install should fetch and install those dependencies so that pip can (as a future feature) invoke this before installing the SciPy stack and not pause a dozen times complaining about a missing dev dependency.<p>Does conan solve this problem ? If no, what alternatives do I have ?<p>Depending on OS-supplied libraries is a royal pain because they are almost always outdated.<p>I&#x27;m all for one idiomatic package manager per language&#x2F;platform (as it is today for a lot of recent ones) which simplifies dependency management significantly.