Sure, but that's an issue in packaging software for Linux that goes far beyond Mono/Xamarin. Any software you develop for Linux that has external dependencies i

Sure, but that's an issue in packaging software for Linux that goes far beyond Mono/Xamarin. Any software you develop for Linux that has external dependencies is dependent upon the decisions of at least a dozen major distributions on what to support, package and ship. Solving that problem is way behond the scope of the Mono runtime.