[Python-ideas] High time for a builtin function to manage packages (simply)?

[Petr Viktorin]

> * I believe integration with systems like conda, PyPM, and the
> Enthought installer should be addressed through a plugin model in pip,
> rather than directly in the standard library

Perhaps integration with RPM/APT could use that as well. If only to
require some kind of --im-realy-sure flag for "sudo pip".