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The problem with system packaging is there are so many systems. For example if you only package something for Debian, how should a Fedora, Arch, Gentoo or even Mac and Windows user use that?

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The problem with systems packages is they solve a slightly different problem from language packages, and so while they are closer to what is needed, they are not right either.

That is one reason I didn't specify the solution.

Debian has by far the most rigorous packaging standards of that list, so subsequent packaging for the other distributions should not be very difficult. Bundling the dependencies into an OCI container or AppImage to run them on non-Debian systems is also trivial once you have a Debian package, but of course that comes with disadvantages. Neither Mac nor Windows have a proper first-party package manager (although winget makes some inroads, thanks of course to Keivan Beigi), so comparison becomes rather a moot point for those platforms.

[1]: https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

"so comparison becomes rather a moot point for those platforms."

No, because the OP was comparing them to language package managers, which are widely supported on Windows

Parent said that the "problem with system packaging is there are so many systems" - emphasis mine.

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