From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-06-11T06:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: webby, ubuntu and gems

On Jun 10, 2008, at 13:02 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>  
> wrote:
>> On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>>> Oh? Perhaps 'gem update --system' should check if it was installed  
>>> via Apt
>>> and refuse to update then. Not realising the danger here, I have  
>>> updated
>>> gem in exactly this way quite a few times.
>>
>> This would have to work for every packaged RubyGems.  I don't know  
>> of a way
>> to do that so it wouldn't break somewhere.
>
> Surely update --system could at least say "warning, if you did not
> install Rubygems from source, this is not a safe operation. Continue?"

Hrm, I will consider it.