title: Does it make sense to use conda as a gernal purpose package manager?
body: <p>I'm trying to decide if I could/should leverage <a href="http://conda.pydata.org/docs/" rel="nofollow">conda</a> (which is a python environment/package manager) to manage packages that have nothing to do with python. In the conda docs it is mentioned that conda is a python agnostic binary package manager, which indicates to me that it should be possible. The question is, is it sensible? </p>
  
  <p>My use-case does not require any fancy integration, just simply extracting the 'packages' at the correct destination is sufficient. What I like about conda is the dependency resolution, and package update capabilities. </p>
  
  <p>PS: I'm not quite sure if stackoverflow is the ideal platform for this question, but I figured that the most people familiar with conda can be found here.</p>