On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 21:33:31 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, > I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. > Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting > to update: > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.3.4-r4 [2.3.4-r3] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.2.7-r4 [2.2.7-r3]
That is unusual unless you configured this yourself. Did you set RUBY_TARGETS in make.conf? Are you on stable or testing? It would also be interesting to know what is pulling in these ruby versions. > I would prefer to get rid of Ruby, but, if memory serves me correctly, > someone associated with the kernel decided it would be a good idea to > use yet another language for something, obviously Python wasn't good > enough.... webkit-gtk and thin-provisioning-tools come to mind as pulling ruby for people that don't want it perse. Hans
