""native" as in: provided by the distribution. Not third party." It was a misunderstanding then: I thought native meant the packaging format native to the OS,

""native" as in: provided by the distribution. Not third party." It was a misunderstanding then: I thought native meant the packaging format native to the OS, not packages which come with the OS (bundled software). Issue 80 from what I understood is about nimble, a packaging format proprietary to one programming language, providing system wide installation capability; this would indeed preclude using native provisioning technologies because those use the OS's native packaging format and hence know nothing of "nimble".