On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:12:53 GMT, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:48:16 GMT, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Installing binary files was/is on the agenda, but mostly just for application packages
I would say installing binary executables for tool/application packages is a must.
No way. You just can't do it properly without lot of efforts (infrastructure efforts, not development) and introducing yet another broken package manager is not good idea.
Leave this up to people who know and care about packaging.