From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T18:03:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Gentoo Ruby

On Saturday, August 28, 2004, 11:52:29 AM, Peter wrote:

>> But is that actually the up to date ri or is that the old school ri that
>> used to be packaged seperately?

> Right. It's the old one. The ruby ebuild does install a ri (and calls it
> ri18), but it does not generate the docs. Since the ebuild does not
> reference the --enable-install-doc flag, I expect it can't generate the
> docs unless you add the flag to the ebuild yourself.

Why the @&%# do these damn packages not install Ruby properly?  Is it
malice, incompetence, ignorance, stretched resources, or just out of
date?  I don't even use the damn things, but they annoy the absolute
crap out of me with all the "support" issues they create!

(Not that I mind people looking to have problems solved in this forum
-- any person with any problem is welcome.)

Gavin