Which distro do you prefer?

some of those projects also do packages in your native format, like .rpm or .deb.

I would say the vast majority do. If I want to download something that doesn't come from the default fedora or ubuntu repo's for example, I go to the microsoft web site, or the chrome web site, or the elasticsearch website, or the oracle website, or the docker website, or the java website and download either an rpm or a deb file. But for other distro's, that use .pet or .pac, or .ebuild or even a tar.gz file ( although the latter is supported more than the other two ) I'm usually out of luck, or have to compile my own. Almost every popular package is going to have an rpm or deb package, even if they have nothing else.

We use a developer package called simplicity studio,, and it doesn't have an rpm, it's deb only.
On the other hand, we use Oracle enterprise with RAC, it's rpm only, no deb package, a lot of enterprise packages
like VertiasClusterManager, or Veritas VolumeManager or TivolidiskManager are rpm only, but these applications
are far from being free.

though that does seem like something that should be automated.

For some distro's it is. It's actually a requirement, and I'm surprised it isn't for all major distro's.

I'd debate this with the friendly assertion that it's not laziness but rather more efficiently managing their time.

I'd debate back, but it wouldn't be efficiently managing my time. :)
 
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that use .pet or .pac, or .ebuild or even a tar.gz file

Yeah, those folks are kinda screwed. I suppose that's a choice they made. The latter is frequently available on their code repo page as a download.

Though, as you mentioned in your other comment, it's a good idea to learn how to build stuff from source - regardless of your distro choice. There's a lot of software that isn't available in anything but the source.

Now that is laziness! :)
 

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