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by talex5 4319 days ago
You can still build your language package manager on top of an existing one. For example, the ebox installer (for the E language) uses 0install to download metadata and package archives, cache things, solve version constraints, etc, but it takes care of actually wiring the language-level modules together:

http://0install.net/ebox.html

It needs to do this because each application is sandboxed. For most uses a generic packager is fine though. After all, most languages also have RPM, Deb, packages etc.