[dheera]

I think the main problem with apt is that the traditional way of using it is to depend on other libraries installed by apt, so if two pieces of software want two different versions of something that are not forward/backward compatible then you have issues. However, I don't see why they can't statically compile OR containerize and still use apt. Just have the .deb install an appimage to /usr/bin and create the necessary .desktop files. The .deb would then have almost zero dependencies. Problem solved.