Ranking package managers by difficulty of creating packages (1-10, lowest to highest):
1. tarballs (slackware)
2. Ports (FreeBSD)
3. Portage (Gentoo, Calculate Linux)
4. pacman (Arch, Archbang, KaOS, Manjaro, Antergos)
5. building from source (Linux From Scratch, Most old installs eventually turn into this)
6. rpm (Redhat, Mandriva, Scientific Linux, UnitedLinux)
7. deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint/LMDE, Hanna Montana Linux)
Why Debian and Redhat-derivatives are the most popular, I'll never understand. I have _way_ less headaches maintaining custom Calculate Linux chromebooks than I ever did with fleets of Redhat or Ubuntu laptops.
1. tarballs (slackware)
2. Ports (FreeBSD)
3. Portage (Gentoo, Calculate Linux)
4. pacman (Arch, Archbang, KaOS, Manjaro, Antergos)
5. building from source (Linux From Scratch, Most old installs eventually turn into this)
6. rpm (Redhat, Mandriva, Scientific Linux, UnitedLinux)
7. deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint/LMDE, Hanna Montana Linux)
Why Debian and Redhat-derivatives are the most popular, I'll never understand. I have _way_ less headaches maintaining custom Calculate Linux chromebooks than I ever did with fleets of Redhat or Ubuntu laptops.