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Oh yes, a package manager fixes all your problems...
...as long as all you want to run is whatever the idiot doing the packaging thought was good, and only as long as it meets the freedom requirements of the distro.
I can run nightly builds of whatever software in whatever version of my OS I want without having to install dozens of megabytes of shit and without compiling anything. Let's see you do that, though guy.
Still stuck running an ancient MPlayer rc2 build after having to add some extra repository? How many versions is that shitty Firefox fork Iceweasel/IceCat/whatever lagging behind right now for your "stable" distro?