It's super easy to extend packages. For example, I was playing with Kafka and wanted the standard package to coexist with a separate install of Kafka with some

It's super easy to extend packages. For example, I was playing with Kafka and wanted the standard package to coexist with a separate install of Kafka with some jar files I needed. It was super easy to create a new package of Kafka with extra install steps that downloaded and placed those jar files where I needed.