From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T06:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Including other people's Ruby libs in your package

Aredridel wrote:

> 
> Speaking as a packager, don't. Just document, clearly, the dependencies
> and where to get them. 
> 
> It's annoying to have to patch away the extra cruft when packaging a
> package for distribution with a linux distro -- but that's the job --
> make it as light as possible with all the features.

I've considered this, but find it potentially too annoying to the user.

I would prefer that people be able to just download a tarball, extract 
it, and copy over a directory to the libs dir.  And it just works.




James