On 18/10/07 at 21:11 +0200, Mathieu Blondel wrote: > Hi > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> - library installation paths (see #446220): >> a common complain heard about Debian's ruby is that we install all >> libs in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8, mixing stdlib and third party libs. It >> would be a good idea to move away from that in ruby1.9. > It's not so much related to the ruby package itself. The packages > incriminated are those for third party libs AND programs (many programs > install files in lib/ and "require" them from the main file). > > Personally, I see advantages to the current approach : it makes a clear > distinction between packages installed with apt-get and packages installed > by hand. Since packages installed by hand have priority according to > $LOAD_PATH, this is just fine to me.
I think that packages installed by hand go to /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8, at least when installed with setup.rb. It would be really wrong if packages installed by hand would go somewhere under /usr/lib/. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
