From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alexey.verkhovsky@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T04:34:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Minimum ruby installation.

On 4/8/07, Kristoffer Lund�n <kristoffer.lunden@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, without providing a dependency package that just installs
> > EVERYTHING. Thereby creating a big maintenance headache for every Ruby
> > application out there. Grr...
>
> I haven't actually had any problem due to this in Debian or Ubuntu,
> but that might be considered a bug. You could at least file one and
> see what the devs say... :)

I am not a Debian user, but in a couple of years of me being Instiki
maintainer I've seen perhaps a hundred "help me!" emails that
eventually came down to that same problem.

Needless to say, none of these people were experienced Ruby
programmers, they just wanted to use the application.

--
Alex