Re: About language specific package management tools
Anthony Towns <aj <at> erisian.com.au> writes:
> don't think it's as feasible:
>
> - if cpan/pypi/etc change their formats and the conversion scripts need
> updating, it'd have to be done on every system, rather than in one
> place
- additional build-depends and depends cannot be expressed upstream,
so you need to track them in the Debian part, which can also only really
be done centrally
> - modifying apt is probably harder than just writing scripts that
> generate debs
- apt is not the only tool…
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian-extras/ testing cpan cran pypi
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian-extras/ unstable cpan npm
>
> (with a separate pool/ and separated by upstream archive)
That could work…
bye,
//mirabilos
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