I use Slackware.And he is using Ubuntu
the basics still apply.
with other words: a system from the 1990's
... which is very up-to-date with it's software, much more than centos or debian. And because I like KISS :)
you are not packaging because you do not want, you can not :-)
Nono, packaging is involved there, too. The mechanism is just quite simple. Primitive, so to say.