[moonboots]

Thanks for the response. I agree that some functionality currently handled by package managers is hairy, even for other package managers. To some extent, I don't think this functionality should be managed by package managers. It would hurt usability because the user would need to set up configuration files, hook the package into the init/upstart system, and fix breakages across updates. On the other hand, I've never been a fan of running 'sudo apt-get install apache2' on a development machine and exposing a public port and running an application I don't always need every time I boot up.