From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2007-11-21T00:44:46+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 On Nov 20, 2007 10:30 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Michael Greenly wrote: > > Hardly... in all package managed systems /usr/lib belongs to the package > > manager. No other application should ever be mucking around in there. > > This is not something unique to Debian based systems. It's just that > > Debian users tend to be more more vocal about these policies. > > Let me emphasize what you just said. /usr/lib belongs to the package > manager on all distros! There's a *reason* the Ruby source and most > other upstream sources install to ("--prefix" in "configure") > */usr/local* rather than */usr* by default. So ... your options are > > 1. Work with the packages as supplied by your distro. > 2. *Don't* install the packages supplied by your distro -- use upstream > source and put things in /usr/local. Which is what I did on ubuntu, I just wasn't explicit about where I installed in my post. > 3. Complain and whine to busy people who will blow you off. :) -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/