On Oct 24, 2007, at 20:08 , Brian Sammon wrote: >>> That seems like an odd switch name then. I vote for '--ask- >>> dependencies' >>> instead. I would tuit '--ignore-dependencies' to mean 'just install >>> the >>> damn thing, don't try to grab the dependencies at all'. >> >> It means the latter. It will never ask before installing >> dependencies anymore. > > Will the --ignore-dependencies option at least tell you what > dependencies you > have just ignored?
`gem dep` will tell you that. > I would like to see the old behavior kept around as an option, or > as an > alternative/additional, a mode for it to behave like rpm/dpkg, and > just fail > verbosely if you don't have the dependencies already. It will fail upon require. > Would patches for any of this kind of stuff be accepted? (as non- > defaulted > options, of course) Yes. -- Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
