> What I don't like about RPM / DEB repositories is that dealing with new versions is hell-like. This isn't 2002. Give me an example that was "hell-like", and

> What I don't like about RPM / DEB repositories is that dealing with new versions is hell-like. This isn't 2002. Give me an example that was "hell-like", and I'll show you misusing your package manager, or misunderstanding what the purpose of a package is. > And you also need packages installed only for the current user, if only because devs constantly experiment with beta-quality libraries and major versions have a habit of breaking backwards compatibility. How are you going to solve that with DEBs or RPMs? The whole point of updates within an operating system release is stability. You develop for a specific version of the distro release. Then a new distro release comes out and you switch to that. You can even upgrade between distro releases. So your development model doesn't fit the platform you are using (or you need to make your own rpms). Still, take a look at Relocate in rpm, or Overlay in Gentoo.