From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T02:57:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Upgrading Compiled Version of Ruby


> Second, even if it does happen, each major version of ruby has it's
> own directory in <prefix>/lib/ruby, i.e., <prefix>/lib/ruby/1.8,
> <prefix>/lib/ruby/1.9, etc.  So even if a file did get removed the old
> file wouldn't be in the new directory.

This pretty much covers it.  I really don't ever see there being any 
problems.  You could try something like http://www.encap.org/ to manage 
your from source packages.

Peronally I've recently moved to building Ruby from source on Ubuntu and 
have been much happier.  I did a very terse howto you can find at 
http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37  I mostly recorded this so I could 
refer back to it myself the next time I needed to do it ;)

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