And how much of this is because you use your own versioning riules instead of what everyone else uses, thereby almost guaranteeing conflicts with everyone else when anything is updated? Seriously, the easiest way to get in trouble with the current system is to insist you get to not follow it, because stuff breaks. Asserting it's everyone else's fault isn't a solution.

Seriously, if everyone follows your versioning system, hsenv becomes essential just as RVM is essential in the Rails community; everyone has to provide their own curated system (your Stackage isn't going to serve everyone's needs, and asking you to make it serve everyone's needs is unreasonable and quite likely an impossible task when everyone else is also doing their own thing) and users have to maintain separate ecosystems for everything they use. This isn't maintainable for much of anyone.

(I see someone else later on actually advocated this as a solution. It's not. It's an ongoing maintenance disaster that leads to unmanageable systems.)
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