From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T01:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get ri/rdoc working for [user-installed libraries]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:22:14PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> >Consider this also.  When you uninstall a gem, it should remove the ri
> >data.  Basically, the ri data for a gem should be installed in that 
> >gem's
> >directory, like:
> >
> >  gems/log4r/doc/rdoc         # exists
> >  gems/log4r/doc/ri           # doesn't exist
> >
> 
> Why? Don't gems keep track of the files they've altered during 
> installation, and remove those that were altered but not already there 
> on uninstall? I don't see why anything needs to know about gems apart 
> from gems?

The problem is that Rubygems only manages files in a hidden 'gemdir'
(like lib/ruby/gems/1.8/somegem), by design, and is unable to install
stuff in $datadir/ri as required by the mainstream ri.

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