Maybe `nim` should have an option to build a `makefile` \+ C files. This would be easier packaging than the workarounds used in [pakku](https://github.com/kitsunyan/pakku/blob/master/Makefile), a package manager for Archlinux written in Nim. They use make to more easily [control the installation prefix](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=pakku).
However this might be more trouble than it's worth, especially with packages that wrap header files and use `currentSourcePath`. It would probably be better to have a tool that deal with packaging Nim applications/library for distributions, it can just be `nimble deploy bin=/usr/bin lib=/usr/lib`. Some distro like Debian or Archlinux like to run sanity checks on the final binary, postinstall tests would be valuable. (Those are different than unittesting, they can only test the high-level API.)
