Editing Package manager (section)

==Impact==
[[Ian Murdock]] had commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement [[Linux]] has brought to the industry", that it blurs the boundaries between operating system and applications, and that it makes it "easier to push new innovations [...] into the marketplace and [...] evolve the OS".<ref>{{cite web |title=How package management changed everything|url=http://ianmurdock.com/2007/07/21/how-package-management-changed-everything/|publisher=ianmurdock.com|access-date=2008-03-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223072201/http://ianmurdock.com/2007/07/21/how-package-management-changed-everything/|archive-date=23 February 2009}}</ref>

There is also a conference for package manager developers known as PackagingCon. It was established in 2021 with the aim to understand different approaches to package management.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PackagingCon 2021 – a conference for package manager developers and packagers|url=https://packaging-con.org/|access-date=2021-09-02|website=packaging-con.org|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902144959/https://packaging-con.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>