> What if you want a library that isn't available in every distro? Or a specific version of a library? Then your wrapper builds a native package for that first

> What if you want a library that isn't available in every distro? Or a specific version of a library? Then your wrapper builds a native package for that first. After all it is building a native package for your application next, why would it be unable to also build a package for that library? > I don't think anyone follows your "rule" because it would be such a mess. Everyone offering distro repos is building packages like that, and that's a lot of projects.