Linked by Jason Vagner on Fri 16th Apr 2004 20:37 UTC
O'Reilly's latest entry in the "Pocket" series, "Linux Pocket Guide", bills itself as a "quick reference for experienced users and a guided tour for beginners".
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Anyway, I think your point is that if there were one package format, since fewer maintainers would be required across all the distributions, updates would push faster and more consistently.
Not only that, but you would probably never run into a senario where you can't find a package for a particular distro. Also, this might persuade some commercial vendors to port their apps to Linux if they could package their app up only once and have it work for all distros.
If a distribution is grossly, out of date, my suggestion would be to switch. Updating versions is not that hard, and a distribution with a poorly maintained package collection is probably also poorly maintained itself
Alright, then ... came someone list for me these 'wonder distros' where you can get the latest version of anything you want in 2-3 days?