Let's start with the first promise for application developers: you can make a single package that will work on all Linux distros! The irony of having two competings standards isn't lost on me, we're basically in the scenario of the ages old XKCD joke and I'm waiting for yet another format to come out. More importantly both have corporate backers that will never reconcile on a single format, so no, you can't make a single package even if you'd like to. 2/14