From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T12:53:26+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5

On 11/23/07, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:28:03 -0500, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > Fact set two: Debian (1) modified RubyGems; (2) didn't submit any
> > patches; (3) made a particularly stupid modification; and (4) provided
> > nothing to help users upgrade RubyGems externally of the Debian
> > packages.
> If you think that being able to upgrade RubyGems externally of the Debian
> packages is a good thing, then you don't understand the philosophy of a
> Linux package manager, and you deserve whatever breakage results from
> your stubborn insistence on flouting the package manager.
>
> gem update --system should be removed from distribution-provided packages.

Then it's up to the distro-packagers to do that.

Which is what I said in other posts on the thread.

I personally *don't* use *anything* Debian provides for Ruby because
they get Ruby wrong on almost every level.

Of course, Debian could also handle RubyGems better by wrapping gems
in a .deb package and going *with* the flow instead of fighting the
flow. But I argued that when RubyGems was first released.

-austin
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