From: andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>
Date: 2011-06-06T23:40:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Changes for Ruby in Debian (and Ubuntu)

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
Standardization. More on this later.

>
> - Lucas
>
>

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