> And all that work could vanish if there was a standard bundler. The same balance of forces that mandate all of that toilsome work are exactly what would prev

> And all that work could vanish if there was a standard bundler. The same balance of forces that mandate all of that toilsome work are exactly what would prevent any standard bundler from succeeding. You can follow https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SnapsFlatpaksReasonsWhy https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SnapsFlatpaks... and https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-snap-and-flatpak-are-so-important-to-linux/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-snap-and-flatpak-ar... and various related discussions around this and eventually I am confident you will conclude that while things may change (today there's docker in the mix as well, tomorrow there will be something else), the one-true-packaging-solution will never be invented. There are simply far too many fundamentally conflicting interests to ever prevent that level of standardization. What you see now is more or less what you will always get. Or, perhaps, we'll see something worse (i.e. only fully locked down computing devices, only app stores with no sideloading capabilities, various other dystopian outcomes). I'm pretty sure we're not going to see something better though; we've had plenty of time...