Universal package specification

[Tom Arnold]

I agree that this might be unreasonable, but all progress depends on
the unreasonable man, right?
A format supported by rpm and deb distros (and others) would be great
win for Linux.
Just yesterday _I_ had to help friends I had converted to Linux
because onlinetvrecorder.com only offers a tgz for their binary and
installation of that is just way too complex for non-geeks.
Third party software installation is the last frontier for the Linux
desktop. I know there have been many attempts and I think it is kind
of sad that RH, Novell and Debian can't agree on something LSB-based.
Serving users is never wrong and it would certainly make the pie
bigger for everybody.