On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/08/10 at 21:31 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> Hi Daigo, >> >> using /var/lib/gems is really quite annoying, and I have meant to write >> something along the lines of what Clint Byrum wrote a few messages ago. >> Sure, using /usr/local isn't ideal, but that's a choice that's up to the >> local system administrator; what you're effectively doing is just >> forcing people to jump through a hoop and having to add >> /var/lib/gems/bin to the default path, which is really quite silly. The >> lack of consistency with what CPAN does is also annoying as we're making >> a distribution, not just packaging a bunch of software. >> >> So, please, please change this. If you don't want to change this, I'll >> take this to the CTTE so they can rule on this. > > While I support the idea of using /usr/local (I even submitted this bug > back in 2007), I find it incredible that you threaten to take this to > the TC. >
Agreed Lucas, Daigo has done his best and remained open to this discussion, so I hope we can all agree to take this off the table. > There has been basically no activity on this bug between december 2007 > and now. On August 26th, a Canonical employee restarts that discussion, > and two days later, another Canonical employee threatens to take it to > the TC? Come on! Can't we have at least one week of peaceful discussion > before you light up the flames? > One correction, I believe Tollef left Canonical in 2008. I know I just met him for the first time in June, and he was no longer with the company at that time. > Also, I don't see anything in the bug report about the way you expect > the transition from /var/lib to /usr/local to happen. It would be great > to investigate this and propose something in the form of a patch if this > issue has suddenly become so urgent for you. > I'd like to see us get through the theoretical and philosophical decision before we start getting deep into any implementation, as I think that would be getting way ahead of ourselves. However, I think /var/lib/gems/$ruby_version should simply remain in ruby's path for this version, and at some point, a "Breaks:" can be added when we remove that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
