Of course they&#x27;ve done technical work, they&#x27;re a distribution. Of course they have a distribution standard, they&#x27;re a large committee-driven project. None of these are pushing the boundaries as such.<p>I never said anything to the contrary, but rather that those are all secondary to the primary political goals. A distribution having a detailed technical policy does not refute any of this.<p>I don&#x27;t support Red Hat, either. dpkg&#x27;s original conception was a tarball-based package management Perl script with rudimentary substring match dependency processing. It evolved as time went on.<p>GNU is the same. Politics first, technology second. They&#x27;ve generally been much better at both, however.