From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-06-11T02:02:03+09:00
Subject: Re: webby, ubuntu and gems

On Tuesday 10 June 2008 09:49:55 miles.sterrett@gmail.com wrote:

> Incidentally, it is acceptable, if not recommended, to install
> RubyGems from source.  Because RubyGems can update itself, you can run
> into issues with both apt/aptitude/Synaptic and RubyGems trying to
> update RubyGems.

However, if I install RubyGems from apt, all gems are entirely contained 
in /var/lib/gems. It provides a nice conceptual break between the package 
managers -- gems go here, apt gets everything else.

The solution here is fairly simple: I don't ever tell RubyGems to update 
itself, or any part of Ruby which is installed via apt. However, I do use 
RubyGems to install everything else, rather than using the libfoo-ruby 
packages.

It would be nice to have an Ubuntu repository autogenerated from gems, though. 
Even this cleanly separated, I don't like having two package managers.