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That's not very useful way of thinking. .deb packages format for example are quite uniformly established and provide a lot of interfunctionality on many differ
by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's not very useful way of thinking.
.deb packages format for example are quite uniformly established and provide a lot of interfunctionality on many different systems. Of course you are going to find other obscure systems and even big other ecosystems (RedHat obviously, and derivatives), but the format we are looking for doesn't have to be the single one either. It just has to work well enough and be somewhat universal. .Deb-level of universality would suffice just fine.
- curt15 6y ago.deb is a format in the same way that .tar.gz is a format. If Fedora or Arch used .deb the problem would no better because each distro has its own package names, its own package versions, and its own downstream patches.