From: badboy <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-01-25T06:16:35+09:00
Subject: Re: gem thought

Roger Pack schrieb:
> I noticed how convenient it is to use debgem, I am wondering if it would
> be useful to be able to optionally specify "apt get style" dependencies,
> per gem.
> 
> a la
> specification[:apt_get_dependency] = 'some_package'
> 
> then you could install things like rmagick something like
> gem install rmagick --install_apt_dependencies
> or
> gem install rmagick --install_yum_dependencies
> 
> which would run apt-get install on the :apt_get_dependency.
> 
> Thoughts?
> -=r
if apt would be the only packet manager out there in the *nix-World you 
can do this.
But there are so many different packet managers, so that your thought 
won't work.
It's simply too much work