> No, they alter and modify the software as they see fit. Well yeah, but you choose the maintainers that do it the way you prefer. In your care you say you lik

> No, they alter and modify the software as they see fit. Well yeah, but you choose the maintainers that do it the way you prefer. In your care you say you like Arch better, because they "patch less" (if I understand your feeling). Still they do exactly what you describe they should do: write a recipe, build it and ship a binary. You can even go with Gentoo if you want to build (and possibly patch) yourself, which I personally like. > Here's one of the recent examples: [...] Doesn't seem like it supports your point: the very first comment on that Reddit threads explains what they did: they split one package into two packages. Again, if you're not happy with the way the Debian maintainers do it, you can go with another distro. Doesn't change the fact that if you use a distro (as opposed to building your own from scratch), then you rely on maintainers.