Re: What's "package based mentality" and why is it bad?

[Nikita Churaev <lamefun x0r gmail com>]

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 15:19 +0200, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 14:52, Nikita Churaev <lamefun x0r gmail com> wrote:
> > http://www.gnome.org/news/2013/03/gnome-3-8-jon-mccann-talks-of-future-in-gnome
> >
> > ...We've reached the end of the utility of the package based mentality
> > that has been effective at getting us to where we are now...
> >
> > What does "package based mentality" mean and why is it bad?
>
> Read these two Ingo Molnar posts for a "non-GNOME" perspective on the issue:
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeFDfRzNe
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/109922199462633401279/posts/VSdDJnscewS
>
> Rui

Why can't the situation be improved without removing dependency
resolution and system-wide libraries? Isn't this the problem of
standardization and unification? Eg. if all distributions used RPM and
you could be sure that GTK+ 3 package is called gtk3 and the library is
located in /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so, what problems would remain there?