You don't have to do that for every language. Just support multiple versions in DPKG/RPM so that the languages who do support RubyGems-style loading can have mu

You don't have to do that for every language. Just support multiple versions in DPKG/RPM so that the languages who do support RubyGems-style loading can have multiple versions. Right now converting gems to DPKG/RPM is all manual work with no good way to automate it. DebGem tries to work around it by making a DEB that includes all existing versions but it's far from optimal. > I wouldn't expect any system to be able to make correct dependency checks (is this upgrade or uninstall safe?) for discovered files without being told what the dependencies are. So... tell it what the dependencies are? Autoconf configure scripts can check for arbitrary things. It's just package managers that insist on only listening to their own databases.