From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T21:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: being confused about libraries

On 27.01.2010 13:20, Ruby Newbee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When running gem I always need to add this lib and that lib (I'm using
> an ubuntu desktop linux).
>
> For example, for sqlite3, sometime I installed it:
> gem install sqlite3-ruby
>
> While some other time I installed it:
> apt-get install sqlite3
>
> So what's the relation between the system "sqlite3" and (most likely)
> ruby's "sqlite3-ruby"?

Ubuntu (and other distros) package gems within their own package 
management system. The reasons are many, but for example this allows 
more fine-grained dependency tracking than RubyGems provides, and allows 
the distribution to make a gem fit into the distribution's file system 
layout.

Another (side) benefit is that bugfixes are applied at the same time as 
the whole system updates. One step, instead of two.

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Phillip Gawlowski