Components can be packaged in rpm and deb formats, just use other tool. They are not tied to platform. When you tie a platform to a package manager/update manager you force things. While plasma and vivaldi packages can easily be packaged in deb later on move to deb might prove difficult for Nemo (all the testing potential wasted? reminds of nokia's changes by higher up guys). We might end up in 'Nokia killed maemo by changing its course' kind of hell. Reverting mistakes as soon as they are noticed could help a lot. If Nemo used .deb compatible with Fremantle catalogs (extras/testing/devel) there would be no crying about lack of apps. Also libs that have been so plentiful in fremantle repos would be freely available to work upon, not starting all porting job from scratch. As easy as it might seem to be, Fremantle catalog was built by hundreds of users. New platform cannot count on such adoption, unless they have a company to do 1B dollar PR for them