From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2007-11-21T00:45:45+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 On 11/20/07, 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. > 3. Complain and whine to busy people who will blow you off. :) 4. Complain to your distro manager to be more sensible when it comes to Ruby. Look closely at what Apple did for good suggestions. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca