Sure. I'm a pragmatist - if that would work, I'd be happy. One major problem is fragmentation/network effects though - you'd need to get enough developers onboard to make something effectively the 'default' userspace packaging system. Major distros already have a big NIH problem with system packaging, every one having it's own system.
Packaging is a difficult problem - the 80% use case is easy to solve, but the edge cases really require elegant forethought. It also seems that every distro has a different idea of what that 20% is...
Packaging is a difficult problem - the 80% use case is easy to solve, but the edge cases really require elegant forethought. It also seems that every distro has a different idea of what that 20% is...