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I am interested in such a thing (e.g. ruby bundler knowing how to install native dependencies from any package manager), but that means pkg-config or similar ubiquitous tool would have to be able to query all kinds of servers in order to see the versions of packages available.

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FreeBSD has had a package called bsdpan for some time that will register items installed through CPAN with the package manager. You may want to poke at that for inspiration on how to do it for other languages. Offhand, for handling multiple systems, it may be most useful to check something like uname and parse accordingly to figure out what's what.

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