What is the goal then? Simply not support a big number of packages or
let the user install RubyGems from source? What is the advantage of the
latter over providing a RubyGems package in the first place?
As an example: how should an Ubuntu user install FreeRIDE or FxRuby?
None of these packages see
On ma, 2006-07-24 at 14:37 +, Johann Petrak wrote:
> So how does Ubuntu make sure that everything that is available through
> gems is available as a package?
That's not a goal -- you chould read
http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html for more
information about this.
> How does
So how does Ubuntu make sure that everything that is available through
gems is available as a package? How does the Ubuntu package system deal
with different versions of packages being installed at the same time?
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There is no package for rubygems
https://launchpad.net/bugs/53900
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ubuntu-bugs
Hi Johann,
This is a deliberated choice: Ubuntu came with it owns system of
packages apt and gem is useless with apt. The only thing that gem tool
will bring in Ubuntu is packages breakage by installing incompatible
versions of library or installing both Ubuntu and coming from gem
libraries. That
