From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2011-06-06T23:33:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Changes for Ruby in Debian (and Ubuntu)

On 06/06/11 at 23:28 +0900, andrew mcelroy wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since the beginning of 2011, the Debian Ruby team has been working on
> > several big changes. Those changes all are available in Debian unstable,
> > some of them are also available in Debian testing, and they should all
> > be available in the next Debian and Ubuntu releases.
> 
> Any chance of getting RVM as a debian package?
> Also, I've been following this thread. I am still unclear as to why there is
> such a need to have a gem2deb translation. Wouldn't a better solution be to
> have a meta package for RVM  and let rvm with rubygems handle gems/ their
> dependencies? The RVM metapackage could include all the major dependencies
> that one would reasonably expect to run into with say the 100 most popular
> rubygems.

What would be the value added by a RVM debian package for Debian users?

Even if I'm not, I thought that RVM users were happy with the current
installation procedure of doing
bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

So I don't see what a Debian package for rvm could bring.

- Lucas