From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-04-08T02:34:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:47:20 +0900, Tom Payne wrote:
> Dependencies are [should be] handled by the package management
> system. John, your wish has already come true on Gentoo and Debian
> systems :-)

Doesn't help those of us who choose not to use Gentoo or Debian. (I
use SuSE when I use Linux; I also use Windows XP.) Frankly, I don't
*want* the OS to manage my Ruby libraries; they're typically much
more lightweight than C libraries.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.04.07 at 13:31:24