The smartest way to do it is to have everyone's special snowflake languages support automake. Because automake's tarballs are so common in the free software wor

The smartest way to do it is to have everyone's special snowflake languages support automake. Because automake's tarballs are so common in the free software world, every package manager has special support to make packaging them easy (cdbs, eclasses, ...). Then when you need something for yourself, you can go get it from an overlay (layman is the thing I miss most about gentoo), ppa or quickly roll up a package yourself.