All those problems are fixed by providing a way for the users to maintain a local package repository (Like Gentoo does with its local overlay[1]). The only dow

All those problems are fixed by providing a way for the users to maintain a local package repository (Like Gentoo does with its local overlay[1]). The only downside to that is that it's more work to create new packages and you end up with part user / part maintainer hybrids that no longer fit the "regular Joe User" model. [1]: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay