From: Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T07:39:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

Hello.

mathew:

> Yes, well, let's not reopen the RubyGems vs APT discussion again...
> That's one area where the Debian folk deserve criticism, but they
> don't seem to have any interest in cooperating to fix the problem.

Don't you think that following 'let's not reopen' with 'Debian folk
deserve criticism' and 'don't seem to have any interest in cooperating'
seems a bit contradictory?

Al Gordon:

> Is there an easy way for Debian users to create .debs for stuff
> otherwise installed via gems or with setup.rb?  I regularly create
> .debs for "./configure; make; make install" by using checkinstall,
> but am unaware of the ruby equivalent, if any.

Don't `checkinstall gem install ...`
and `checkinstall ruby setup.rb` work?

(Not tried these, just wondering.)

Cheers,
-- Shot (who believes that Debian folks are right in trying to follow FHS)
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