The lack of PPA has hold the industry back for years. Outdated Apaches, outdated Mysqls, outdated PHPs. In a word, distro mantainers became gateway keepers, and bad ones, since they don't have the unlimited resources required to keep everything to date.
While there definitely are cases when you want somebody to pick the versions for you, nowadays the industry is moving just to fast for keep most people satisfied.
Of course there will be poor PPA's. Poor Github repositories also exists, bad NPM packages exist, bad Maven packages exist, but that does not stop people to search for the right ones and take charge of their own future.
While there definitely are cases when you want somebody to pick the versions for you, nowadays the industry is moving just to fast for keep most people satisfied.
Of course there will be poor PPA's. Poor Github repositories also exists, bad NPM packages exist, bad Maven packages exist, but that does not stop people to search for the right ones and take charge of their own future.