> Packaging is actually a huge amount of effort if you try to package for all distros.
That's the neat part: You do not have too package for all the distro.
Just make your components easy to decouple with provided pkg-config (ideally) and a proper configuration mechanism.
No bundle, no hidden download or tangled vendored messy script.
Then it is easy to do: you can just provide the packages for your main targets (e.g Ubuntu, Redhat typically) and the community of other distros will take care of the rest.
That's the neat part: You do not have too package for all the distro.
Just make your components easy to decouple with provided pkg-config (ideally) and a proper configuration mechanism.
No bundle, no hidden download or tangled vendored messy script.
Then it is easy to do: you can just provide the packages for your main targets (e.g Ubuntu, Redhat typically) and the community of other distros will take care of the rest.