This is what gives Desktop Linux a competitive age against the well known proprietary OSes where users boasted of lots of apps. I still recall the long lost days where installing an application means compiling and executing the source. Which at least for a Desktop User for me was a greatest turn away. Thanks to the packagers, now more and more Desktop OS users can settle down for Desktop Linux.
Didn't get it...
Do you mean to say that we should not forget FreeBSD as it too has packagers apart from Linux?