Oh, sorry, I got confused by the mention of Scheme.
Though that means the XKCD comic doesn't apply. This is a standard with a very specific goal, and it very much does not want to incorporate a lot of the earlier standards.
Though that means the XKCD comic doesn't apply. This is a standard with a very specific goal, and it very much does not want to incorporate a lot of the earlier standards.
I guess you could say it's about de-facto standards here, rather than standards. Deb, RPM, pacman, Nix, etc., as well as all the language-specific PMs all solve the broad problem of package management, so one of them could become the de-facto standard and embrace the others, but it ain't gonna happen.