The future of packaging software in Linux

[Jonathan Carter]

From:

http://polishlinux.org/linux/the-future-of-packaging-software-in-linux/

"""
GNU/Linux is known for its diversity and freedom of choice. There are 
multiple window managers and desktop environments, many competing 
systems for handling sound, graphics and hardware autodetection. This 
diversity is the power and weakness of free software. Exactly the same 
problem concerns installing software in GNU/Linux. There are currently 
at least 5 popular ways of doing it
"""

They mention Ubuntu 7.04, and a bunch of distribution independent 
package managers, but no mention of Smart package manager though.

-Jonathan