I sympathize with your concern. Fragmentation is fundamental to Open Source. Fragmentation brings mutation, and mutation brings evolution. Fragmentation is a v

I sympathize with your concern. Fragmentation is fundamental to Open Source. Fragmentation brings mutation, and mutation brings evolution. Fragmentation is a virtue of open source. Not a vice. The world simply doesn't value security above convenience, as I intuit you may. I think the natural tendency of all organic evolution is to take the path of least resistance. It will not be effective to ask developers to do more work. That is going against nature. The packaging ecosystem has to compete and win against its competitors. That is the true way of Open Source, of organic systems. It is likely that the packaging system you are advocating for is more difficult than the competitors you mentioned. Reducing that friction is perhaps a more effective place to apply your focus. What are these competing ecosystems doing that makes them more attractive? Why is your ecosystem losing users? How does Flathub, Snapcraft and nixOS fit into this view? How does the mac app store, the windows store fit into this view? What is the one true way to package an application?