You could dedicate your life to improving package management in PHP and still never approach the quality of even RubyGems, let alone CPAN. Inertia is just too much to fight against when you have a massively popular language with an ad-hoc design that has accreted over a decade.
More power to anyone with a vision and a goal, but I'll personally leave PHP to its strength as batteries-included templating language.
More power to anyone with a vision and a goal, but I'll personally leave PHP to its strength as batteries-included templating language.