I'm totally with this. Simplified build process will help people adopting newer/custom packages into stable releases. Better if a package can be generated from

I'm totally with this. Simplified build process will help people adopting newer/custom packages into stable releases. Better if a package can be generated from single definition file. Even Redhat has a simpler build system that relies on package "spec" files. The current workflow resembles the one in Redhat, but is more verbose and, well, dirty.