> Every year or two another group of people gets it into their heads that there is "something wrong" with the way distributions do things, and they have "the an

> Every year or two another group of people gets it into their heads that there is "something wrong" with the way distributions do things, and they have "the answer". Even Nix package manager, which I think is doing something usefully different? Having just spent too much time trying to compile PHP 5.5, 5.4 and 5.3 + extensions on the same Ubuntu 14.04 box and failing due to small-but-incompatible underlying library changes (especially FreeType) I'd really appreciate it if established distros learned from their model.