Any distribution is going to form it's own 'way' though. It's a natural side effect of having a packaging system in the first place - you have to start standar

Any distribution is going to form it's own 'way' though. It's a natural side effect of having a packaging system in the first place - you have to start standardizing some things. Take filesystem organization for instance - after many distros fought over this for years we got the FHS. But there are still thousands of open source projects out there that each do things their own way and if you install a bunch of them on one system you're going to have a mess unless there is some standardization. Debian has its own way of doing things but it was developed over time, just like Arch is developing ways of doing things now.