From: Benjamin Billian <benjamin.billian@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T01:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

Rob Sanheim wrote:
> On 12/21/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> By the way, at least the three major package management systems --
>> yum(Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and some others), apt(Debian/Ubuntu and
>> others) and Portage(Gentoo) have source packages in the repository, and
>> installing a package from source is as easy (but takes longer) as
>> installing a pre-compiled binary. So the only reason for a direct
>> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
>> Ruby itself.
> 
> Well, that and you want to use the latest security release that came
> out a couple weeks ago - and it hasn't made it into the package
> repositories yet.

If that happens, I want to switch my distro to something more secure. 
SCNR ;)

Benjamin