And Slackware's packaging is light enough that it is fairly simple to write wrappers around gems/CPAN modules/Python eggs. The latter two have prewritten SlackB

And Slackware's packaging is light enough that it is fairly simple to write wrappers around gems/CPAN modules/Python eggs. The latter two have prewritten SlackBuilds that you can use, assuming that the setup.py is not doing anything too shady.