On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:07 AM, matt mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm, I think that I might have to disagree with you on the --verbose > option. While useful to some, I do not believe it is a good default > option. You lose sight of the bigger picture when using --verbose.
I don't think so. What you consider makes you "lose sight of the bigger picture" is just a drop in the bucket compared to output of the building process of many C/C++ programs. Without --verbose, the output is simply: Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed yajl-ruby-0.8.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for yajl-ruby-0.8.2... Installing RDoc documentation for yajl-ruby-0.8.2... ... doesn't look too helpful, does it? On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:07 AM, matt mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, you failed to mention in the subject, or body, that this patch > sets the binary directory with the -n option. Putting _all_ ruby gem > scripts in /usr/bin is questionable, IMHO; however, since gem's > default binary directory is /usr/bin and is unchanged in Arch, I will > add the -n option. Not to mention, I see this is being done anyway in > github-gem and this option is a much saner way of doing that. > > Thanks, > matt Yeah. I've noticed this redundant `mv' in several PKGBUILDs, hence the fix. I did mention it, in teh patch :P
