> a better > approach might be to separate the libraries from the much larger distribution > of plan 9-based commands etc, and make them available in the usual way > as packages to import using the (many different) package managers on > Unix-like systems.
this is what i was looking into just this morning. i wanted to package factotum - and others - individually in hope that more programs use it. i spent about 3 hours faffing with debain's packaging tools, then remembered that i have work to do :-(