One of the the things I love about Gentoo & Arch is that packaging for them is incredibly easy. At least, as long as upstream isn't doing anything insane. But t

One of the the things I love about Gentoo & Arch is that packaging for them is incredibly easy. At least, as long as upstream isn't doing anything insane. But this means that I as a user can wrap an upstream package, without too much of an issue. (E.g., if you have a binary tarball that can be unpacked to, e.g., /opt. Even if it has to be built, so long as your dependencies are clear, that's usually not too hard. Some languages fight package management a bit more than others, though.)