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You aren't meant to use them for managing your system. They are mainly there for development. For example, I often use them for a debian chroot on arch.
I would guess they’re there mainly for developers on arch cross developing for those distros. Not managing packages on arch.
e.g. I install rpm on arch but only use it to build rpms.
If you actually need to run some DEB or RPM or such, people seem to be recommending Distrobox a lot these days.
I believe those are used for the package build toolchain, not for actually managing the packages on your system.
Sure, but the newest version of each package is four years old and riddled with dozens of Debian-specific patches that somehow only make it run worse.
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