[talex5]

"Decentralized package management huh? How would that work?"

http://0install.net/ does this (sad to see it wasn't mentioned in the article). Basically:

1. Use URIs rather than short names to identify packages.

2. Scope dependencies so different applications can see different versions of the same library where necessary.

Here's an OSNews article from 2007 about such things:

http://www.osnews.com/story/16956/Decentralised-Installation...