I wonder if back in the early days of #Unix-like OSs, there was opposition to the concept of a package manager.

I can hear the debates echoing in my head already:

"Package management makes users lazy and less likely to check and audit what they're actually installing. Especially if you end up automatically resolving dependencies and blindly applying updates!"
"One program should never have that much power over a system. What if the project is taken over? Searching for, downloading, installing and updating software should be the jobs of different, smaller programs according to the Unix philosophy."
"Distributions should offer their users the choice of multiple package managers, or otherwise we're giving too much power to the maintainer(s) of a single program."
"Centralised repositories are a terrible idea as they are a single point of failure and it encourages users to blindly trust their authority."
"All of this nonsense about making computing 'user-friendly' is just going to bring tons of undesirables normies in."

Serious question, was this the actual discourse back in the day?
#linux