wouldn't it be harder if yo didn't have the distros standard environment to target? if the user had gone upstrem to get any significant number of packages for t

wouldn't it be harder if yo didn't have the distros standard environment to target? if the user had gone upstrem to get any significant number of packages for their system that would be very messy, no? in my experience there is nothing better then having a repo/ppa or even a well built .deb / .rpm, i wish for it every other day for my mac/win boxes.