On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think there's a need, for those projects at least.
>

There's definitely a benefit to packaging when you maintain a large number
of systems or want to provision cloud servers quickly.


> - rvm makes ruby builds so easy and consistent that packages aren't really
> required (and you get lots of other advantages over a systemwide install);
>

How long does it take you to compile Ruby these days on a slice with 256 MB
ram?


> - nginx has to be rebuilt to change passenger or other module versions, so
> packaging it isn't practical.
>

How is this a problem?

- Mike

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