Spearbeheaded packaging

Days ago the Free Standards Group formed this Packaging workgroup. I'm sorry, but I just can't force myself to love that effort yet. The way it all sounds makes me somewhat skeptic. The whole thing is backed up by such industry monsters as SAP AG, and the members of the workgroup seem to aim at bringing the windows packaging experience to Linux. As porters/packagers we'll have to keep an eye on them because the system they are rallying for, named Autopackage, can really be the next ubiquitous package management solution, replacing both rpm and dpkg.