From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-22T05:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Package requests for the prelim. Ruby Production Archive

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:55:21AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> My only constraint is that any change we make shouldn't hurt rdoc/ri in 
> general. The major stumbling block to all of the packaging systems that 
> I see is handling installed packages that extend existing classes. 
> These work fine on installation, but I don't know how to handle the 
> uninstall, as stuff from the package may have been added to preexisting 
> descriptions.

Yes, that's the fundamental problem (and some associated usability issues)
I would like to solve in a general way. It might require some non-trivial
changes to ri/rdoc though... I'll try to explore some possibilities in
ri-rpa, prior to a possible merge.

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