From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-12-22T09:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [debian rant ?] Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> I think subtraction makes more sense than addition here.  The Debian
> Ruby packages have been the cause of countless hours of free support
> here and on other Ruby-related mailing lists.  'Catastrophic' is not
> too large a word here, in my opinion.

  Substraction is nearly impossible with the way debian packages are
handled now. That would be a valuable addition to the project, but a
long term one.

  In my [debian developper] opinion, it is not possible to merge the
packages you mentionned. But it would be possible to have a ruby-full
package that woul install all the packages that expect to make up a full
ruby distribution. Would that cheer you up ? You would have only one
package to select (but still many automatically installed). I'll forward
the idea to the debian ruby team (some of which are probably reading
this already...)

	Vince

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