Marcelo wrote: > > This situation gets so messy, that some Ruby developers prefer > to _not_ install ruby via dpkg at all. And they get mad when > something in the dependency chain pulls Ruby into the system.
To be fair, it's similar in reverse. Some Debian developers prefer to _not_ install Ruby *at all*. Given how utterly awful the internals of the language implementation are, I'd happily support dropping Ruby from Debian altogether. Maybe that's just me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1u0ati-00067a...@mail.einval.com