Ar 11/08/2004 am 00:29, ysgrifennodd Paul van Tilburg: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:44:42AM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > > > At Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:58:31 +0200, Emiel van de Laar wrote: > > > > > > > When developing Ruby apps developers assume that the Ruby standard > > > > library is available. I sometimes install Ruby apps that don't come from > > > > Debian packages and then have to install a number of Debian libruby-x > > > > packages... Would it be worth creating a virtual package that installs > > > > all of the standard library packages. This would be a nice addition in > > > > my opinion and make my life a lot easier. I wouldn't have to track down > > > > each individual package... > > > > > > > > Something like: apt-get install ruby ruby-stdlib > > > > > > how about > > > apt-get install $(grep-available -n -s package -F source -X ruby1.8 | > > > grep lib) > > > > Heh, that is not so obvious for the average user but works perfectly indeed. > > > > I think that the virtual package is worth while. I've heard a lot about > > this on the channel. I appreciate the modularization of ruby-stdlib (so > > one can purge stuff that leads to unwanted depends), but the ability to > > get it all at once and that this is a Recommand would be a pre. I've just > > downloaded and installed Instiki, which includes redcloth, bluecloth, > > and madeleine by itself, but it assumed stdlib to be installed (as many > > programs do), so it still didn't work out-of-the box. > > > > I'd like to draw the analogy here with gst-plugins.. one can install > > them all and have full gstreamer support, or choose to let some out > > because one for example doesn't want libaa or libartsd to be installed. > > But then by dropping gst-plugins installation (refuting the Recommend) > > the reponsibility of keeping everything together is shifted to the user. > > Thoughts, please?
I think having a ruby-stdlib package is an excellent idea -- it's quite common to want to have the whole standard library installed and it should be easy to do so. Since most users will want the standard library, having ruby Recommends: ruby-stdlib would make sense. -- Dafydd
