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Hi Dhx1,

what about writing a bot, that adds properties like Arch package (P3454)?

Long term I think bots should be able to update software version, dependency and other properties in Wikidata based on values extracted from Linux distribution package repositories. Bots may also be able to help with importing software into Wikidata, however I have found that a fair amount of software is already listed in Wikidata as items with different labels (expanded acronyms for example) and items without labels or other identifying properties. Perhaps Mix'n'Match would be better suited to the initial import, or bots used to generate likely matches that can be manually confirmed?

So, how easy it is to e.g. query the Arch Linuxs package database? I think it's just build with folders and text description files.

It's easy to query and extract information from Linux distribution package repositories, but not necessarily easy matching those packages to existing entries in Wikidata/Wikipedia, or to other packages in other distributions. Binary distributions can be complicated due to having multiple packages for the same software, where each package may add a slightly different module or feature. In Gentoo, this would be handled as one package with multiple USE flags.