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Just do whatever the package file says.
Maybe possible for some packages, but, a package manager main reason for existing is usually handling dependencies so as to not result in conflicts.
Definitely something that sounds easy, but is likely far from it for packages that have a deep tree of dependencies
I mainly agree... if you have all of the deps already on your system, it'd work, otherwise it won't.
in my (probably silly) case, i wanted to install and automatically update every reboot the
xmrig-donatelesspackage on a Ubuntu Linux machine. Ubuntu doesn't have a decent way to install the package and keep it updated as far as I'm aware.I made a simple script that fetches the latest package file, sources it and performs the install steps. it works for what i need.