On 10/20/07, Austin Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/20/07, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/20/07, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Somehow they think that that violates the FHS, or at least the debian > > > policy interpretation of it. > > > Look at the very end of: > > > http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html > > > I can't say that I understand it, but that's what the Debian ruby > > > maintainers think. > > Actually, I thought that Trans was pointing to GoboLinux, which has > made this decision. They may reuse the .deb format which may be the > source of the confusion. I'm not sure, as I haven't actually looked at > what Debian or Ubuntu do (I always build from source on these > platforms). >
I don't know why that, since the package and latest recipe from GoboLinux to build / install rubygems don't use the .deb file at all. Even the contributed recipe is using a older version of rubygems (0.8.11) > > "This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application > > or the system. State information is data that programs modify while > > they run, and that pertains to one specific host. Users must never > > need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's operation." > > Yeah. Whoever chose /var/lib chose wrong. But GoboLinux doesn't follow > FHS, if that's the item in question. (GoboLinux is approaching it from > a Mac-like approach. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work as well as > that, and even the Mac still uses /usr and /usr/local and /opt and > /opt/local...) > GoboLinux actually create some hidding symlinks for those /usr /usr/local and /opt /bin /etc... they aren't the real ones. I found less intrusive the compile and packaging process of GoboLinux than any other packaging on linux... but that is too subjective and my POV... Trans: could you be clear if you're talking about GoboLinux or debian use of forced gem store location? -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
