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>it seems I will just have to use the project-specific tools instead of having a comprehensive, do-all collection of packages installed.
anon i just told you that exists, it just depends on your distro
for example these are all the development meta-packages (package manager specific term being patterns) i've got installed on opensuse tumbleweed
there's not going to be one that covers 100% of your bases because that would be very stupid, you'd wind up with hundreds of gigabytes of python libraries alone (and there are some python distributions that partially do this, i believe that's what conda/anaconda is) never mind every other language