alt Hacker NewsWell, if you're fine with using 3-year old versions of those libraries packaged by severely overworked maintainers who at one point seriously considered blindly converting everything into Flatpaks and shipping those simply because they can't muster enough of manpower, sure.
"But you can use 3rd party repositories!" Yeah, and I also can just download the library from its author's site. I mean, if I trust them enough to run their library, why do I need opinionated middle-men?
If this is a concern (which it rarely is) then you can pitch in with distro packaging. Volunteers are always welcome.
> "But you can use 3rd party repositories!"
That's not something I said.