The DUB package manager

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On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 11:51:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
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Ugh, have you ever tried to do it in practice? Because I have 
been maintaining few packages, primarily for Arch Linux, and it 
is not even remotely close to what you say. There may be some 
bureaucratic headache to get stuff into official Debian repos, 
but you always can create your own mirror, like it was done here 
for D stuff: http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/wiki/APT_Repository . 
Packaging itself is always simple and requires close to zero 
efforts.

And saying you don't want to learn OS package manager to 
distribute stuff for it is like saying you don't want to learn OS 
kernel API to write drivers to it. Sure it is so better to be 
forced to learn dozens of language-specific package & build 
managers to just get a single application working. Software 
ecosystems are evil.