what I love is when I want to install a single ruby gem and I get to sit around waiting for a half hour while it fetches seventeen unrelated things from github. For extra special sauce, let github be down.
Get pip and be enlightened.
Get pip and be enlightened.
And apt-get, pacman, rpm are not excuses, because I like to use Slitaz as my OS
If virtualenv (which I love) is something that plays havoc with package management - they should be merged, rather than not do anything about it.