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kayamon
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't want a Linux-style package manager?

Why can't apps be self-contained downloadable things with all their dependencies contained within, like back in the Apple Macintosh days?

yulaow
Because doing something like that is not only a space and data duplication problem, but also a security problem where you have to be sure that when a specific program has a critical bug (let's take openssl for instance) all the "self-contained programs" that you have on your machine get updated at the specific version that can save your ass... and that's become a vendor-specific issue, not something that you as a user or admin can solve directly and easily.
modinfo
Because the package manager is much more comfortable? I use yaourt on my arch, and without him I would be alone