Configuration management systems (chef, puppet, cfe2&#x2F;3) is a superset of package management#, which is, in turn, depends on frozen static artifacts of each project&#x27;s build system.<p># This is because configuration management installs files, packages, templates files and runs commands pre&#x2F;post, similar to how most package managers work, but at a fine-grain level of <i>user customized</i> as opposed to <i>maintainer customized</i>.<p>The meta is that one could consider a &quot;system&quot; or approach by where the project build and configuration management systems were seamless.  One main challenge in doing so would be that the staticness of artifacts allows for <i>reproducible</i> compatibility, whereas end-to-end configurability can easily become Gentoo.