I think this makes a lot of sense. I used to be a proponent of everything being a .deb or .rpm, but I've come to realize that certain things just can't be packa

I think this makes a lot of sense. I used to be a proponent of everything being a .deb or .rpm, but I've come to realize that certain things just can't be packaged reliably on that level. I know a whole slew of people who refuse to try out node.js because npm exists and they can't (well maybe 'really shouldnt') install those packages with apt-get. I've yet to see a reliable up-to-date OS vendor distribution of node.js itself, much less all the packages.