This is what I have. stephen #grep RUBY /etc/portage/make.conf RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20"
stephen # ls -l /usr/bin/rdoc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 6 20:13 /usr/bin/rdoc -> rdoc20 stephen # eselect ruby list Available Ruby profiles: [1] ruby19 (with Rubygems) [2] ruby20 (with Rubygems) * Regards On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:20 AM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/2014 12:56 AM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:47:38 -0700, walt wrote: > > > >> Is all of the above familiar to you? If not, you may need more help > >> with managing multiple ruby versions. I find it a large PITA and I > >> could use more help myself :) > > > > Could you explain what bothers you or where you would need help? > > Hi Hans. The annoying problems occur when updating ruby-related packages. > > For example, I (want to) use only ruby19: > > #grep RUBY /etc/portage/make.conf > RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" > > In spite of that, portage often insists on installing other versions of > ruby, rdoc, rubygems, and you already know the others. > > AFAICT, the other versions of ruby are dragged in by old ruby packages > that were installed before I started using "RUBY_TARGETS" (because I > didn't yet know about RUBY_TARGETS), > > I discovered all of this by grepping for ruby in /var/db/pkg but it > took me a long time to get it sorted out, and I don't expect that a > gentoo beginner could do it. (OTOH maybe a gentoo beginner wouldn't > care about installing multiple ruby versions :) > > Thanks for taking the time to read gentoo.user and even more thanks > for being a gentoo dev :) > > > > > >
