Bug#448639: [DRE-maint] Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-09-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/08/10 at 08:46 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: rubygems is not an end user tool, it is a development tool. Note that it is clearly advertised as a end user tool by the upstream ruby community. - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#448639: [DRE-maint] Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-09-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/08/10 at 13:58 -0400, Tim Olsen wrote: On 08/30/2010 01:38 PM, Adam Jacob wrote: Tim Olsen wrote: I am a developer and being able to switch between Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9.1 gems is important for me. For example, I use Rubygems-installed rake to run my automated tests. All I have

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Clint Byrum
On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Tim Olsen wrote: On 08/28/2010 03:31 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: what you're effectively doing is just forcing people to jump through a hoop and having to add /var/lib/gems/bin to the default path, which is really quite silly. Actually, the directory to

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Clint Byrum
Hi Daigo, thanks so much for your thoughts on this matter, On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Daigo Moriwaki wrote: Clint Byrum wrote: In the upstream default install of rubygems, the default location for these binaries and rubygems library files is /usr/bin, and /usr/lib respectively. This

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Tim Olsen
On 08/30/2010 11:46 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: rubygems is not an end user tool, it is a development tool. As such, it has sharp jagged edges that let you do things like this. I'm all for making sure users are protected from themselves, but gaining root privileges means you are taking

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Adam Jacob
Tim Olsen wrote: I am a developer and being able to switch between Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9.1 gems is important for me. For example, I use Rubygems-installed rake to run my automated tests. All I have to do to see if my tests work on a different version of Ruby is to update my PATH. Making

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Tim Olsen
On 08/30/2010 01:38 PM, Adam Jacob wrote: Tim Olsen wrote: I am a developer and being able to switch between Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9.1 gems is important for me. For example, I use Rubygems-installed rake to run my automated tests. All I have to do to see if my tests work on a different

Bug#448639: Debian Bugs information: detailed logs for Bug#448639

2010-08-30 Thread Adam Jacob
On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Tim Olsen t...@brooklynpenguin.com wrote: What I was more thinking of was if there was a change in how rubygems organizes things under /usr/local. Lucas proposed storing gems under /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8. But if rubygems needs to move things around upon an