From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2011-06-06T16:10:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Changes for Ruby in Debian (and Ubuntu) 2011/6/6 David Masover : > why do I have tons of packages > called libruby-foo, which are a Ruby library (often a gem) repackaged as dpkg, > when I already have rubygems to do the work? By having, for example, a ruby1.9.1-mysql2.deb package, you don't need to install mysql development libraries into your system. Neither you need to *manually* manually mysql user library as the DEB package would install (due dependencies). -- Iñaki Baz Castillo