On 10/21/07, Donavan Pantke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 20 October 2007 01:29:14 pm Chad Woolley wrote:
> I don't do Debian package maintenance, but I do understand the overall problem > with using /usr/local/lib. The issue is that a system package manager should > not install software into /usr/local, because that's supposed to be used for > system local commands. What this means is that a system package manager can't > install gems and have them in the same structure. Yes, but as far as I know, the debian ruby packages don't install gems. Some of them repackage the contents of gems to be installed by dpkg, but this loses the ability to have multiple versions installed concurrently. I'm still not sure I understand why the gem command installed by a package can't put the gems under /usr/local the only glitch I can think of is that it might make it difficult or impossible to update gem itself as a gem. But I long ago dropped the idea of using debian packaged ruby, at the suggestion of /\ndy Hunt. And now most of my development platform focus has switched from Ubuntu to OSX anyway. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
