Surely you are not serious. The diversity of Linux package managers has led to some great ideas, with different distributions implementing some things different

Surely you are not serious. The diversity of Linux package managers has led to some great ideas, with different distributions implementing some things differently. Open source software means everyone is free to scratch their itch, and that is one of the features of OSS many of us hackers like the most. Heck, just yesterday there was this story on HN where a distribution(Exherbo) introduced a whole new way of doing multiarch with some novel approaches (full disclosure I use the distribution): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508077 Do you really want to lose this process of continual improvement just by everyone using a single package manager, a single distro? Thinking through this a little more, the diversity in Linux is one of the greatest advantages over proprietary systems.