The main reason is it is very easy to set up and maintain. One big thing is I can use grep(1) to find what package a file came from, ls(1) to get a list of pac

The main reason is it is very easy to set up and maintain. One big thing is I can use grep(1) to find what package a file came from, ls(1) to get a list of packages. No need to remember various obscure commands to search to query what is installed.