Richard Sparrow, an old friend on this website, has created something that I have thought was missing from the PSP homebrewing community for a while. He has created a Cydia-equivilant for the PSP calling it Installer.
The app itself finally got out of beta so here is the 1.0 version of the software.
this means that you can now download the latest version of PSPInstaller from within the application itself
After downloading and installing like any other app, it will state that the app needs to be restarted, if you press start, the app will automatically close down back to the XMB, when you relaunch it, it will show the app as being updated
woop woop
also added version numbers to first page
There seems to be a bug in the app for users with 5.50GEN-D but it works perfectly on all other firmwares. He is working on a fix for the 5.50GEN-D users.
Click to download: PSP Installer 1.0 (77)

woop woop 
Now we have to hope that people will host their apps on the package manager.
There was something similar to this out on the PSP before..