Hi there,
Having discussed Perl packaging changes for Fedora 13 with Stepan Kasal in Brno last September, during the Red Hat Developer Conference 2009[1], I found his ideas (or the Perl SIGs ideas) sufficiently interesting to experiment with myself in the case of Ruby.
I did a blog post[2] on this subject, showing off a local build of a compat-ruby-1.9.1 package I've made. I'm still working on some of the other troubles all of that introduces, but I wanted to let you know where I'm thinking it could be heading towards.
Have a nice day!
-- Jeroen
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 [2] http://www.kanarip.com/node/872