Ranking package managers by difficulty of creating packages (1-10, lowest to highest):<p>1. tarballs (slackware)<p>2. Ports (FreeBSD)<p>3. Portage (Gentoo, Calculate Linux)<p>4. pacman (Arch, Archbang, KaOS, Manjaro, Antergos)<p>5. building from source (Linux From Scratch, Most old installs eventually turn into this)<p>6. rpm (Redhat, Mandriva, Scientific Linux, UnitedLinux)<p>7. deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint&#x2F;LMDE, Hanna Montana Linux)<p>Why Debian and Redhat-derivatives are the most popular, I&#x27;ll never understand. I have _way_ less headaches maintaining custom Calculate Linux chromebooks than I ever did with fleets of Redhat or Ubuntu laptops.