> Why is it [APK and PKGBUILD] make it so much easier while the juggernauts of the Linux distro world have such complicated, poorly documented messes? If I had

> Why is it [APK and PKGBUILD] make it so much easier while the juggernauts of the Linux distro world have such complicated, poorly documented messes? If I had to venture a guess, I'd point to 3 factors: 1. They're both much younger than their 'juggernaut' counterparts. 2. They both have explicit commitments to simplicity, perhaps even at the cost of other virtues should push come to shove. 3. The documentation exists primarily to facilitate the maintenance of the distro itself, which is done sustained by inducting members into a community and documents are referred to users in a process of inculcation. Documents that work well enough for (3) may not be that helpful to someone who expects to be able to sit down by themselves and slap together a package to maintain for their own usage or to submit as a drive-by contribution. In the Arch world, at least, drive-by contributions play a crucial and esteemed role in the ecosystem, namely in the AUR. Perhaps similar is true in Alpine, as well.