]] Lucas Nussbaum | 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.
Threaten? It's the place to take technical arguments that can't be resolved by discussion, and this has been a long-standing argument with little movement on either side. | 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? I left Canonical years ago, and I don't see why somebody's employment would be relevant at all. I'm, as you can see, writing from my personal email address. | 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. That is an implementation detail, and assuming we can agree on moving to /usr/local, I'm sure deciding on how the transition should work is doable. It's pointless to start writing patches before there's agreement what needs to be changed how. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
