Wrapper for package managers

There are a lot of language-specific package managers like cpan for perl, cabal for haskell etc. When we want to install some software, it can sometimes be installed from a corresponding repo, with installation instruction just like (say, [Yaxy](https://github.com/Kolyaj/Yaxy)) npm install yaxy or cpan something or cabal install something. These package managers have slightly different syntaxes, they all need root privileges and/or custom setup, or (in case of Yaxy) just a newer version of interpreter (nodejs packaged by Ubuntu was too old to run it). Is there a wrapper for different package managers that unifies/automates setup for different package managers? Edit: what I want is a way to execute installation command like that npm install yaxy and make it working without manual installing system npm+nodejs, getting non-functional executable, finding the simplest way to install fresher nodejs on my system, reinstalling...