Le Wed, 22 May 2013 09:11:08 +1000,
Matt Palmer <mpal...@debian.org> a écrit :

> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:35:55PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is a good idea as long as both ruby 1.8 and 1.9.1
> > are used.
> > 
> > The user has the ability (using the alternatives) to switch between
> > 1.8 and 1.9.1. So that means that even if 1.9.1 is installed, the
> > user could still use 1.8 and the rubygems package might be missing.
> 
> That's a possible issue.  What if rubygems was a recommends?  It'd
> still be pulled in normally by default, but it would at least not
> *block* removal of Ruby 1.8.  Makes it rather difficult to do a sane
> dependency chain, though.

Vagrant package is not the only package that has a hard dependency
against rubygems. I would say that the same solution should be applied
to all the other package as well.

> What does Vagrant even use rubygems for directly?  It seems odd that
> a tool to manage VMs would need to install gems itself.

Rubygems is used to manage plugins that can be loaded in vagrant. I
didn't really investigate how difficult is was to disable this feature.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville


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