> it's still trivial to do a curl/yum/rpm install when some component is missing. Oh yeah? Which one? curl, yum, rpm, apt-get? All of them? Which revisions are

> it's still trivial to do a curl/yum/rpm install when some component is missing. Oh yeah? Which one? curl, yum, rpm, apt-get? All of them? Which revisions are you targeting? Which package names? And that only covers windows. A lot of apps need to be deployable under windows and OSX too. If you start being even slightly cross-platform, you soon have your own build system.