Comment by echelon

Never in a million years.

Rust's Cargo is sublime. System apt / yum / pacman / brew could never replace it.

Cargo handles so much responsibility outside of system packages that they couldn't even come close to replicating the utility.

Checking language versions, editions, compiling macros and sources, cross-compiling for foreign architectures, linking, handling upgrades, transient dependency versioning, handling conflicts, feature gating, optional compilation, custom linting and strictness, installing sidecars and cli utilities, etc. etc.

Once it's hermetic and namespaced, cargo will be better than apt / yum / etc. They're not really performing the same tasks, but cargo is just so damned good at such important things that it's hard to imagine a better tool.