I absolutely love this trend of "pip install x" as a distribution mechanism for this kind of thing. People badmouth Python packaging a lot, but once you've learned how to use a virtual environment (admittedly a steeper learning curve than I'd like it to be) having binary wheels for so much of this kind of stuff is a huge win. See also Playwright, DuckDB, ziglang... I wrote a bit about those here https://simonwillison…
That is a very bad, no good idea.
A good language-specific package manager should know how to resolve its dependencies and maybe install them locally, but most importantly provide this information to the system package manager (apt, rpm, etc.) to handle.
Having "pip install x" is a poor man's ad-hoc system package manager.
