Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-09 Thread Adam Carter
> > I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that > requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of > Ruby all of a sudden? > That's the default if you havent specified which version of ruby you want, via RUBY_TARGETS in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 09 Dec 2013 18:29:46 Grant Edwards wrote: > My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed > to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related > packages. This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby > can't coexist: (something to do w

[gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-09 Thread Grant Edwards
My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby can't coexist: (something to do with tk and threads). I've never had Ruby installed before,