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by taylanub 4226 days ago
The comic was applied to the situation somewhat liberally. :-)

I guess you could say it's about de-facto standards here, rather than standards. Deb, RPM, pacman, Nix, etc., as well as all the language-specific PMs all solve the broad problem of package management, so one of them could become the de-facto standard and embrace the others, but it ain't gonna happen.