1. As a developer, I couldn't care less about making your life easier at the expense of making mine more difficult.
3. I couldn't care less what you won't package. Especially so if it's due to prioritizing your own needs over everyone else's. Take it or leave it.
4. Distributions are already woefully inconsistent anyway. If you're going to package something, the entire burden is on you.
Distributions have had too much influence over upstream projects for way too long. Thank god people are finally starting to reject their diva-like, our-way-or-the-highway attitudes. I have been a package maintainer for both Fedora and Debian, and frankly, for things outside of the core OS/libs/compilers/tools, using deb/rpm packaging is very, very overrated. Likewise for dynamic linking.
3. I couldn't care less what you won't package. Especially so if it's due to prioritizing your own needs over everyone else's. Take it or leave it.
4. Distributions are already woefully inconsistent anyway. If you're going to package something, the entire burden is on you.
Distributions have had too much influence over upstream projects for way too long. Thank god people are finally starting to reject their diva-like, our-way-or-the-highway attitudes. I have been a package maintainer for both Fedora and Debian, and frankly, for things outside of the core OS/libs/compilers/tools, using deb/rpm packaging is very, very overrated. Likewise for dynamic linking.