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by comma_at 1663 days ago
This is all good and true, but it's looking at the problem from the Linux distribution's perspective. The user wants a working application. Something like AppImage allows a small team to distribute a working package for every distro. Now imagine that team of 5, working on their app, packaging it for ubuntu, fedora, arch, rhel, ... It's just not possible.

What would solve this issue? A common package manager and central repository, across all Linux distributions. Then the small team only needs to package and ship to one repository, in 1 format.