Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 13, 2015 0:56 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Some unreliable predictions for 2015 by HIGHGuY
Parent article: Some unreliable predictions for 2015

I don't think that there are 30 different packaging systems in use. The difference between distros is less in the packaging system used and more in the choices related to how each package is created.

Tools like alien can mechanically convert packages from one packaging system to with pretty good reliability, but that makes no impact on the work the different distros do.