Hi
This question popped up while discussing how to deal with Ruby gems on
Gentoo in a way that gives the user the freedom to choose Portage,
RubyGems or both for gem management.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268857
Here's what it boils down to:
If a Ruby gem ebuild is slotted, th
Marijn wrote:
Is it feasable to extend Portage to allow a file to be owned by
several
slots and remove it only once the last slot is uninstalled (aka: once
the ebuild is completely uninstalled)?
Do we have any guarantees that the file you want to share will be
compatible
with all gems that
Gilles wrote:
so this wrapper could be installed in a separate eselect sort of
package ?
How exactly can this be done? If a gem creates five executables, would
this mean that this gem comes in six ebuilds?
If those kind of wrappers are generic enough, it could even be a
single
eselect package
