From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2010-09-14T03:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that the Ruby community is aware of both of these trends, and I
> think that's why somebody wrote RVM in the first place. (I don't use RVM,
> somehow I suspect it would badly break my Debian.)

One of the design features of RVM is that it installs everything as a
regular user, in /home/whoever, therefore it *cannot* break your
Debian. For what it's worth I'm using it very happily both at home
under arch linux and at work under ubuntu and have had zero problems.

martin