Yeah, in general, things work out nicely. :) I figure this genre of post and the post it's responding to are mostly about exceptions. My impression is that exc

Yeah, in general, things work out nicely. :) I figure this genre of post and the post it's responding to are mostly about exceptions. My impression is that exceptions become more and more prevalent as (app?) development practices diverge from the workflow that distros have spent decades optimizing their processes for (ie., apps are developed with package managers that don't map well to distro packaging).