The case against distro packaging: - Desktop Linux has a small user base. Further splitting it up with different packages for each distribution makes it furthe

The case against distro packaging: - Desktop Linux has a small user base. Further splitting it up with different packages for each distribution makes it further a non-target. - You can only install software cleanly that is packaged by your distributor. No distributor packages software that costs money. Many distributors try to prevent you from installing software with licenses they don't approve. - If your user is using a stable distribution they will have old software. The distribution might only push bug fixes if they are security related. Users will report bugs that are already fixed. - Maintainers often have no idea what they're doing, because they aren't working on the project and there are rarely other developers that check their patches. Worst case this leads to something like the Debian random number generator bug. Distribution packaging for user facing programs has large drawbacks with marginal benefits, which can be mostly broke down to the not invented here syndrome.