Serge what is important is to produce configuration for the projects. We are working on a tool to help us with that but this is not ready yet.
This is a great strength of programming languages like Ruby or JavaScript/Node to propose large repositories of packages that could be installed very easily with all the correct dependencies.
Nice to see that thanks to the guys from INRIA (and more generally from the community), the Pharo ecosystem is following the same way. I also agree with Marcus that the day will come where the progress will be more visible.
I'm currently on the way to move all my packages from SqueakSource to SmalltalkHub.
Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/