> The point is that package maintenance is work that nobody is willing to do or to pay for. It's also work that shouldn't have to exist in the first place. Sa

> The point is that package maintenance is work that nobody is willing to do or to pay for. It's also work that shouldn't have to exist in the first place. Same application being packaged in different formats - rpms, debs, tarballs and what not -, linked against different set of libraries - so that end users can unpack and run the application developers develop. I know I'm simplifying the issue, but when you step back and look at the issue of how much time, energy and money goes into maintaining packages of the same software for different versions of different distributions, makes you wonder how we got into such a situation. I remember having to update whole Ubuntu version to get a newer version of an application I wanted to use.