Sorry, forget to do list-reply, it only went to Akira TAGOH. --- Hi,
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:45:42PM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > I think I understand the topic of this proposal. IMHO > changing the role of meta package here isn't good idea. and > I wonder what you mean by -core. also wonder if we really > need a lot of meta package for only Ruby. I disagree your > proposal then. Well, in only introduces two packages. The role of package 'ruby' was changed because of what I hear most in the community that people expect 'apt-get install ruby' to provide them with the full Ruby interpreter + stdlib environment. 'ruby-core' was introduced analogous with x-window-system-core, gnome-core, etc. People who know what they are doing can install the more lean version, mine preferred option anyway. And well... 'ruby-interpreter' is a natural consequence of the two things above. > However I like an idea of making a meta package like > ruby-stdlib. so another proposal from me to solve this > problem is: > > - make a meta package like rubyX.Y-stdlib in rubyX.Y, which > has all dependencies of the packages built from Ruby. If > you don't want to install some package in them, you can > just install the packages you want from them so that you > can see which packages are provided from Ruby now. > > - make a meta package like ruby-stdlib in ruby-defaults, > which has a dependency of rubyX.Y-stdlib according to the > initial policy of ruby-defaults. I mean it works for > providing the current stable version. I as well thought ruby-stdlib would be best, it is a solution too, although now I prefer the stair-like solution I'm trying out now. > - add Suggests: ruby-stdlib to ruby meta package. IMHO it > should be sufficient since you can see which packages are > suggested by the package when you do apt-get > install. either Depends or Recommends is annoying to me. Really would go for a recommend, there is almost no reason to install stdlib entirely, it is small and concise and apart from Tcl/Tk and Tk there are no depends outside Ruby. Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
