Re: removal of alternatives system

2014-03-27 Thread Hleb Valoshka
On 3/27/14, John Leach j...@johnleach.co.uk wrote: The Ruby packages in Debian no longer support switching between different Ruby versions using update-alternatives. All unversioned binary names such as `ruby`, `gem` etc are now provided by the `ruby` package, and will be symbolic links

Re: removal of alternatives system

2014-03-27 Thread John Leach
On 27/03/14 09:08, Hleb Valoshka wrote: On 3/27/14, John Leach j...@johnleach.co.uk wrote: The Ruby packages in Debian no longer support switching between different Ruby versions using update-alternatives. All unversioned binary names such as `ruby`, `gem` etc are now provided by the `ruby`

Re: removal of alternatives system

2014-03-27 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi John, Le 2014-03-27 11:07, John Leach a écrit : thanks Hleb, I was interested in specifically why it was decided that the ruby versions should no longer be switchable (or if they are still switchable in some way, why it was decided not to use the alternatives system). Thanks, John.

Re: removal of alternatives system

2014-03-27 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Cédric Boutillier wrote: Hi John, Le 2014-03-27 11:07, John Leach a écrit : thanks Hleb, I was interested in specifically why it was decided that the ruby versions should no longer be switchable (or if they are still switchable in some way,

removal of alternatives system

2014-03-26 Thread John Leach
Hi all, from NEWS: The Ruby packages in Debian no longer support switching between different Ruby versions using update-alternatives. All unversioned binary names such as `ruby`, `gem` etc are now provided by the `ruby` package, and will be symbolic links pointing to the binaries corresponding