From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T23:59:51+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6


>
> * rpa and/or rubygems installed by default.
>
This would be a bad for anyone to do. When you include a library into 
the base, it is diifucult giving out version changes unless you wish to 
override and break other programs. If the api changes, etc. One good 
exampe of this is SOAP4r, I've been using it for the past 6 months, and 
I have to override the base installation becuase it is in the base 
already. NaHi just can't simply throw it in stable-snapshot and people 
download the version. It has to most likely be with releases for the 
sake of compatibility and stability.

Neither packaging systems should be included at this time. rpa-base 
actually upgrades itself, but has no function to upgrade the system to 
tell the new software is installed. Like on most BSDs the software is 
taken off at uninstall by a series of checks and deletes. If there is a 
new version downloaded, the md5 sum of the file will be wrong and much 
will go wrong.


David Ross
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