I meant the same repository software/format. Try to convert CPAN... And you'd need language bindings for selecting the properly installed package (language mod

I meant the same repository software/format. Try to convert CPAN... And you'd need language bindings for selecting the properly installed package (language modules need to be multi-version capable). Things like "gem 'activerecord', '= 1.4.0'" in RubyGems, or Maven's dependency resolution. But again, the technical difficulties pale before the political ones. You'd have a much larger chance of success concentration on one platform (e.g. Debian), creating some automatic gem/egg/CPAN converter and then wrapping the language-native tools to use that. Whether that's actually worth the effort…