You are conflating curation&#x2F;QA and packaging. Packaging itself should not care about the quality of the packages.<p>It&#x27;s well known that the debian repositories are extremely well reviewed and tested. But you <i>could</i> have that with Arch&#x27;s packaging system as well.<p>When someone builds a package themselves however, they are not expecting Debian&#x27;s QA &amp; testing nor are they usually interested in it. But a package, untested as it may be, is far, far better than a sudo make install.<p>When I used debian this was such a huge <i>pain</i>. Building packages was not worth the hassle so I would simply sudo make install and feel awful about it, and end up with conflicts and everything that a package manager is supposed to solve...