From: "Vít Ondruch" <v.ondruch@...>
Date: 2011-11-02T06:03:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40651] Re: Can rubygems save us from "binary-compatibility hell"?

Dne 1.11.2011 0:05, Eric Hodel napsal(a):
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 2:41 PM, V�t Ondruch wrote:
>> Actually you have missed that there are Linux distros, which are repackaging the gems. I am speaking of Fedora and RHEL. It would cause a lot of troubles.
> What troubles?

Because you had to rebuild packaged gems after even the tiniest update 
of Ruby. There is currently more then 200 gems in Fedora, so that is a 
lot of work to rebuild them. Even the smallest Rails stack counts almost 
50 gems.