DPKG (Debian Package Manager) Review

DKPG has one of the best multiarch support you can easily add new architectures with dpkg --add-architecture $ARCH to install foreign architectures.

DPKG and it frontends follow strictly the UNIX philosophy that one package should do one thing well.

eg:

Dpkg: does simple package management
APT and aptitude : adds repository and dependency tracking
debconf: does configuration
synaptic: allows mouse interaction to all apt/aptitude options

Due the popularity of Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint it is almost certain that you find the package you want as a pre-built deb package.

DPKG isn't as bloated as other package managers since it is only made for local package management.

You can use apt, aptitude, cupt, debdelta or apt-build on the terminal.

There are plenty of helpers to easily create packages.
You just need to create 5 files: source/format, compat, rules, control & changelog and run dpkg-buildpackage.

It is possible to interact/ask questions to all pre and post install scripts. This makes it possibe to add questions for package configuration or to display EULA/License screens that have to be accepted before installation.

Deb packages are simple ar archives with additional tar, lzma, bzip, gzip support.

This makes maintenance and support easy.