On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Evan Phoenix wrote:

> See below.
> 
> -- 
> Evan Phoenix // e...@fallingsnow.net
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> 
>> Because of this validation:
>> 
>> https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/lib/rubygems/specification.rb#L2189-2192
>> 
>> today it's not possible to generate a gemspec with an empty
>> `require_paths`. I would like to build shell a gem that contain no
>> code, it merely depends on other gems.
> Could you provide some info about your use case? Does this new gem exist only 
> to specify dependencies and therefore act as a meta-gem of sorts?

It may not be Aarons use case, but I've done this before a handful of times for 
ease of distribution, just packing a very simple binfile into a gem. Example: 
http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yb1u0pr4w9ywnoztlr39a

Yes, this could be written in another language. Yes, it could be packed into a 
file in lib, and other things. It could be distributed some way other than a 
gem. It's just convenient to be able to use a cross-platform package manager 
for a simple purpose such as this, though.
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