Yeah, I think I should've made it more clear in the post.

Mainly I was thinking commercial app support (ie payment API) and user reviews/ratings. It bothers me that, AFAIK, for the longest time no one had thought of including some sort of user feedback or ratings for software in an apt repository.

I mean of course there are difficulties with getting consistency when you have many distributed repositories, but I don't think it's an insurmountable goal.

I love the fact that I don't really need to hunt through shareware sites for downloading various apps on Linux. But I still find myself going back to Google every time I try to gauge the quality of the app I'm about to download.