Market is front-end too. It can't search in offline, but who cares... Android is reach for applications, indexes should be too huge. Yea. I make deb-packages (and get paid for it; it's part of my work). Do you know there're some deb-based Linux distros with only dpkg installed (embedded systems)? What's your point - they do have package management or not?
>Please begone with you and join another discussion to which you might hopefully participate more constructively. And I'm working with Android a lot too. It's better (for me) discuss with someone who know _both_ systems, not just his own swamp.