IMHO the problem is that there is no standard package manager. Therefore everybody keeps backing custom solutions and fragment the ecosystem a little more. If

IMHO the problem is that there is no standard package manager. Therefore everybody keeps backing custom solutions and fragment the ecosystem a little more. If there was a standard package manager that wasn't tied to a particular OS/distribution then we could all just happily target it instead. Of course the task of making a package manager that would work on all un*x flavours as well as Windows and probably a couple others and managing to get it accepted by the majority of users/distributions sounds like an impossible task to achieve.