[khedoros1]

opkg itself looks like a competent package manager. If the software selection of the repositories for the device you were working with is any good, then it might take some work to find equivalent packages, but opkg should still handle resolution of the dependencies.

Then again, the more esoteric the platform, or the less frequently a particular piece of software is wanted on that platform, the more friction you'll have to overcome.

Find a Windows for MIPS (or whatever that embedded Linux is running on) and tell me that getting equivalent software running is easier.