Poll about package management

[J. Greenlees]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Greg Schafer wrote:
>> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>>> does it
>>> allow running arbitrary scripts on the DESTDIR contents before
>>> actually creating a package?
>> Um, I don't think so. However, while Pacman itself is written in C, the
>> "makepkg" portion of the system is a Bash script which allows easy
>> hackability. That's what allowed Alex Merry to write the fake_install()
>> patch that I still use today.
> 
> I.e., writing such patch would be easy. That's enough.

There is a good perl based start to handling the differences in package
manager formats.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/

It's often included as an option in the debian and rpm distros, to
increase the ease of finding packages in a package manager format.