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What exactly prevents you from creating your own packages if you want to use your system package manager?

On Alpine and Arch Linux? Exactly nothing.

On Debian/Ubuntu? maybe the convoluted packaging process, but that's on you for choosing those distributions.



On Nvidia/Jetson systems, Ubuntu is dictated by the vendor.




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