> ... a second level of human beings responsible for reviewing, auditing, packaging, and customizing those hacker-generated upstreams for the benefit of their users.

> The real solution (for Linux too) is a paid package curation service. Or really, a small handful of them competing on price, speed, reliability.

That was also what I was thinking aloud a moment ago. And there would be a business opportunity, too. Perhaps not like RHEL et al. full-blown stuff per se, but say smaller scale guarantees with different pricing; web, AI, scientific computing, and whatnot. At the pace things are progressing, I'd guess you might even get desktop etc. users on board (for nominal pricing).