From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T02:08:38+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't Ruby load .gem files directly?

Kevin Brown wrote:

>Nope, because in other debian-ish situations with libraries (be they written 
>in C and compiled) you can put them in and pull them out seperate of the 
>application by using apt-get, which makes a LOT of sense.
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But why would someone who doesn't know or care about Ruby be doing that?

>What would happen when you uninstall the program if packaged as you mention?  
>You can't remove the gems, and you can't really leave them there either...
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`gem uninstall thegems`

(Yeah, there are probably things you can do with the debian pkg manager 
that you can't with gems, and I think it's worth fixing that.)

I guess my concern with repackaging is that it introduces duplication.

Devin