[davexunit]

The duplication is less of an issue in the corporate, one application per VM environment. However, my focus isn't solely on that. Web applications are really hard for most people to self-host. They are made a bit easier by things like OmniBus packages that bundle absolutely everything, which makes the user dependent on each application author to ship security fixes to software they didn't write.

There's also the issue of stateful package managers that can break in the middle of a package install and you're screwed. Most of the time that doesn't happen, but I've been bitten before. So the fpm approach is a great short-term win and I want to roll it out to the production systems at work soon, but in the long term I think we need functional package management to make our systems more resilient to failure.