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There's a staff shortage and instead of catching up on packaging tasks the project is building the 19th, what 20th package management system that Linux has now, instead of using battle tested systems like .deb and .rpm?

That is why projects like Arch ... Nixos ... etc ... all eventually become "niche".

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Nah, you can keep both. Arch and Alpine are the only two distributions where I bother to build proper packages for everything because their package managers make it so easy to do the right thing.

It might be the 20th package manager in existence, which would be a problem, if Debian maintainers did not release a 20th way to build .debs just a year or two ago, mostly (but not really) deprecating the previous 19 ways. No thanks.

Its not "building a new package management system", "alpm" is literally the foundation of the pacman ecosystem. They are improving this so they _can_ catch up on packaging tasks.

I'm the same as the sibling commenter, I don't want to have another deb or rpm distro. The AUR wouldn't exist without pacman&makepkg.

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