Ar 27/01/2005 am 13:38, ysgrifennodd Dafydd Harries: > Ar 27/01/2005 am 14:06, ysgrifennodd Adeodato Simó: > > - a new package ruby-core is introduced, that depends on _most_ of > > the Ruby stdlib (Tcl/Tk libs are left out). At first, it was > > thought of including here only the pure ruby libraries, so that no > > dependencies outside libruby existed. However, as many of the > > needed libraries were 'required' or 'important' or 'standard', > > they have been included. Installing ruby-core, then, gives a very > > reasonable, yet compact, ruby environment. > > Yes, this is sound. > > Another alternative is to make a package (ruby-libs, ruby-modules, > ruby-stdlib, etc.) which includes all of the standard library, but > doesn't declare a dependency on Tk. This way, all the libraries are in > one package, but packages which want to depend on Tk being available > will have to depend on ruby-libs (even if indirectly through the ruby > package), *and* Tk itself.
I should clarify what I meant here. The ruby-libs package would include the libtk-ruby stuff, but not depend on Tk itself. In retrospect, this wouldn't work with the current package split, as ruby-libs would depend on libtk-ruby and libtk-ruby would still depend on Tk. Perhaps some sort of "Undepends:" field in dpkg would let us do this. :) -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
