From: erik eriksson <ee@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T23:02:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

>>>>> "Mauricio" == Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

  Mauricio> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:34:26AM +0900, Austin Ziegler
  Mauricio> wrote:
  >> 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.

  Mauricio> As for me, I'd like the OS to manage everything, it does
  Mauricio> just great :-) [*] I guess we cannot *all* be happy...
  Mauricio> unless we provide an _optional_ way to integrate the Ruby
  Mauricio> module installation into the system-dependent package
  Mauricio> management system.

I would like the option to:

1) Install system wide (/usr/local/lib/ruby/something)

2) Install local ($HOME/rubysomething)

3) Create package (DEB, RPM etc) for manual package installation. I
   don't know about RPM, but automatically generating a
   debian/-directory and run dpkg-buildpackage wouldn't be that hard,
   would it?

  / erik

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