From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-06-24T02:52:32+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 1.2.0 On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > Why do you care? also, because the environment may not be the same installing something you *know* apriori has deps (LD_LIBRARY_PATH et al) compared to having gems automatically install a dep which is already there. for example i have two mysql installs - i need to be sure a gem install compiles against a particular one in some cases. if gems auto installs deps including previously installed ones it can easily surprise me be recompiling against the wrong installation (including all deps) if i'm unprepared. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama