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I think these days we see a split between "meta distributions" like Debian and Gentoo (both certainly best quality of their particular kind) and more complete and integrated solutions like RedHat or SuSE.
What are you talking about? Debian is both the most complete _and_ the most integrated distribution of all. No other distribution, actually, no other operating system period has something like the Debian Policy Manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/) that encompasses _every single component_ of the system. Not just the base system, but also all the packages supplied by the distribution. If something doesn't conform, it's a bug and should be reported as such. Most of the non-essential packages for other major distributions like RH and SuSE aren't even packaged in-house, they're contributed from the outside. That's why you sometimes end up in 'RPM dependency hell', and not because there is something inherently wrong with the RPM package format as some people seem to think.