(05-28-2017, 12:53 PM)Kurausukun Wrote: Linux is generally meant to be lightweight, so it makes sense that people prefer to use shared libraries--why download the same thing multiple times and use up more space than you need to? But I do agree that application managing is more annoying than it needs to be on some Linux distros. Ubuntu isn't a very good distro to use for this reason IMO.
Well like I said the reason is to retain a sense of portability. What other distro's do you think do it better then Ubuntu. I'd be interested in look at them. I don't like using apt but I would still prefer it from pacman because apt has better tools for portabilizing apps and repos.