From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-12-22T08:57:16+09:00
Subject: [debian rant ?] Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
>>   Could you state precisely what you mean under this ? As I participate
>> to debian developing, there might be things I could help with in here ;-)
> 
> :~$ dpkg -l |grep ruby
> ii  libdbm-ruby1.8 1.8.4-5        DBM interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii  libgdbm-ruby1. 1.8.4-5        GDBM interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii  libruby1.8     1.8.4-5        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
> ii  libruby1.8-dbg 1.8.4-5        Debugging symbols for Ruby 1.8
> ii  libtcltk-ruby1 1.8.4-5        Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii  ruby1.8        1.8.4-5        Interpreter of object-oriented
> scripting lan
> ii  ruby1.8-dev    1.8.4-5        Header files for compiling extension
> modules
> ii  ruby1.8-elisp  1.8.4-5        ruby-mode for Emacsen
> ii  ruby1.8-exampl 1.8.4-5        Examples for Ruby 1.8

  I see your point, but for instance, you wouldn't want to pull in
database dependencies when you don't actually need any databases, or
even worse tk/x.org dependencies for a purely remote server... Do you
know a better way to do so ?

	Vince

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Vincent Fourmond, PhD student
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