From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T18:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux OS

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> I think for
>> doing something like setting up apache + ruby/rails, pretty much any
>> distro will do for experimentation, though the debian based ones will
>> annoy you if you try to install ruby via apt.
> That's a big negative in my book. :) How is Ruby installation difficult 
> on apt-based distros?
> 
It's not the fact that it's apt which makes it difficult - it's the 
historical packaging policies of Debian Ruby which splits the core into 
separate packages for the interpreter, irb, rdoc, and so on, which is 
confusing.  If I remember correctly, there was talk a short while ago of 
providing a meta-package which would pull all of these together in a 
single 'apt-get install ruby-full' (or something) to minimise irritation.

I tend to ignore that and use checkinstall, myself.

-- 
Alex