title: Universal .deb or .rpm
body: <p>I noticed that the download page for VSCode (<a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://code.visualstudio.com/download</a>) has a single <code>.deb</code> for all versions of Ubuntu/Debian/etc. and a single <code>.rpm</code> for all versions of RE/Fedora/SUSE/etc.</p>
  <p>How can a single file work for multiple versions of a single distro, let alone multiple distros? I would think that different versions of libraries etc. would make this not work, as seems clear from e.g. <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian</a> or <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1650570/is-it-safe-to-install-ubuntus-deb-packages-on-debian-are-deb-packages-univer">https://superuser.com/questions/1650570/is-it-safe-to-install-ubuntus-deb-packages-on-debian-are-deb-packages-univer</a></p>