> There are currently 570K+ projects in pypi, 60k+ in debian repos. Not all PyPi projects require C code. > It can take several months of work to approve one

> There are currently 570K+ projects in pypi, 60k+ in debian repos. Not all PyPi projects require C code. > It can take several months of work to approve one single package to the official repos This is a massive exaggeration. For Fedora it takes a couple of days, all of it being necessary review of the code and licenses. And yes, you do have to do that work, it's done by the distros themselves too.