[gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others
My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby can't coexist: (something to do with tk and threads). I've never had Ruby installed before, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal-nautilus-webkit-ruby multipath-tools-thin-provisioning-tools-ruby These both seem to be new dependancies. After uninstalling gnome-terminal, multipath-tools, and thin-provisioning-tools all is good (the update proceding sans Ruby). I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of Ruby all of a sudden? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Wait ... is this a FUN at THING or the END of LIFE in gmail.comPetticoat Junction??
Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others
On Monday 09 Dec 2013 18:29:46 Grant Edwards wrote: My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby can't coexist: (something to do with tk and threads). I've never had Ruby installed before, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal-nautilus-webkit-ruby multipath-tools-thin-provisioning-tools-ruby These both seem to be new dependancies. After uninstalling gnome-terminal, multipath-tools, and thin-provisioning-tools all is good (the update proceding sans Ruby). I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of Ruby all of a sudden? I found the same a few days ago, but didn't have the energy to sort out the mess. Just now I ran: $ sudo emerge -c dev-lang/ruby:1.8 dev-lang/ruby:1.9 dev-lang/ruby:2.0 json racc rake rdoc rubygems thin-provisioning-tools =virtual/rubygems-1 =virtual/rubygems-4 =virtual/rubygems-6 I'll reboot now and see if lvm2 can still mount my LVM partitions since I recompiled it without thin :-) (Later: it can!) -- Regards Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others
I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of Ruby all of a sudden? That's the default if you havent specified which version of ruby you want, via RUBY_TARGETS in make.conf.
