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Integration with language packages
- languages like Haskell, OCaml, Perl, Python, R, Tex have their own package repositories
- approaches:
- patch to register as FreeBSD pkg
- e.g. scrape each CTAN directory
- pkg plugin to resolve new kinds of dependences (which can query language package system)
- e.g. when requesting a tex package, go to CTAN
- it would be difficult to depend on e.g. texlive-2013
- could integrate using Provides: ?
- this would require a solver that can integrate with external repositories
- pkg 1.2 will have a pluggable solver that might support this
- pkg uses CUDF (sp?); could feed everything using this?
- lots of work: different systems provide different information, name packages differently…
- rwatson covers eyes when word “ontology” is mentioned