From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-20T17:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Include Rake in Ruby 1.9

On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:13 , Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> I'm afraid that I don't understand 'since the RubyGems version  
>> won't own
>> the already-existing file?' part.
>
> RubyGems doesn't do system-specific handling that way. It will try to
> override /usr/bin/rake if ruby is installed in /usr/bin/ruby (at least
> right now). I *think*, though, that RubyGems looks to see if it's  
> about
> to overwrite a foreign file and may (should) refuse to do that.

RubyGems does not make this check.  It will clobber an existing bin/ 
rake.

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