From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T07:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5

>
> I'd just never use an Ubuntu package for Ruby or RubyGems. Ever. (Why?
> The upstream maintainers at Debian Don't Get Ruby. While the situation
> is better than it has been, it's still a freaking nightmare.)
> 
> -austin

That actually made me laugh.  Debian doesn't get package managment? 
It's really quite the opposite.  RubyGems started with a very poor 
understanding of living in a package managed world.

In theory it currently has the necessary tools.  If --prefix installs 
and $GEM_HOME were properly respected there wouldn't be a problem, but 
there not!

If they were my stupid 'update --system' mistake wouldn't have moved 
ruby gems library from /usr to /usr/local and the gem_home from 
/var/lib/rubygems to /usr/lib/ruby/gems.

RubyGems needs to work correctly no matter where Ruby is installed.  It 
needs to never modify files outside of --prefix (or installed defined 
directories) and it needs to consistently respect $GEM_HOME.

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