From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-06T04:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: building rubygems without documentation


On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:09, Sy Ali wrote:

> On 8/4/07, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Sy Ali wrote:
>>> I see no way to build rubygems without documentation.  I checked the
>>> --help listing and ri and rdoc are not mentioned.
>>
>> Try gem help install.  In there, you'll see --no-rdoc and --no-ri.
>
> No, I mean "RubyGems" _itself_
>
> I use "ruby setup.rb --help"  and I see no options to not install rdoc
> or ri.  I already tried those switches.  =)

Not possible yet:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=8450&group_id=126&atid=575

I think I'm going to rip out setup.rb and replace it with something  
small and simple.  It shouldn't take 1500 lines of code to install  
something.

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