My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby can't coexist: (something to do with tk and threads).
I've never had Ruby installed before, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal->nautilus->webkit->ruby multipath-tools->thin-provisioning-tools->ruby These both seem to be new dependancies. After uninstalling gnome-terminal, multipath-tools, and thin-provisioning-tools all is good (the update proceding sans Ruby). I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of Ruby all of a sudden? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Wait ... is this a FUN at THING or the END of LIFE in gmail.com Petticoat Junction??