[mcovey]

Linux packaging certainly is a mess.

I have 50+ "update-foo" scripts for programs that want me to use yet another package manager. Everything that doesn't use apt is in there, so many of them just run "pip install foo" or "npm install foo", at least this way I don't have to remember which program uses which package manager.

I used to be very adamant that if something did not have an apt repository then I wouldn't use it, but that's become hard to do. Even the piece of software I use the most, my browser, is not managed by apt. Firefox (developer edition) lives in ~/.local/lib and updates itself.