Package management is often hideously complex and a central sink of labor effort in linux distros. Building it for yourself is easy, in practice using dynamically linked libraries are the start of all sorts of troubles.
I’ve personally had great difficulty building these for large libraries, especially when they use a build tool different than the one I’m familiar with (I use cmake for C++ these days but I find cmake itself horrendously complex and difficult to understand even after investing significant time into it).
