Once upon a time it was popular to laugh at package systems like RPMand say that all you really needed was ' make install '. This attitudemissed the point, because the importance of good package systems isthat they let you easily remove things .
This matters because it encourages experimentation with packages.If removing a package is difficult and painful, it's a fairly bigcommitment to just install a package in the first place. If removing apackage is easy and reliable, then installing packages is not at all