I think that depends. ArchLinux packages are almost just bash scripts. People can request fixes. I am sure when you first started programming you weren't an exp

I think that depends. ArchLinux packages are almost just bash scripts. People can request fixes. I am sure when you first started programming you weren't an expert and that same logic applies to making packages. Multiple distributions you may be right. I suppose it is fair enough that you would want to install third party packages from source but with most package managers I would guess you could download the package and look at how it is built or at least what files it contains. Using packages can make cleaning up a bad package easier.