On Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:33:31 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, > I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. > Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting > to update: > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.3.4-r4 [2.3.4-r3] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.2.7-r4 [2.2.7-r3] > > Have I managed to stuff up something on my machine or is this really the > case, there has to be three versions? And to make matters worse, they > are not big version jumps, + 0.1 -> 2.2, 2.3 & 2.4. > > I would prefer to get rid of Ruby, but, if memory serves me correctly, > someone associated with the kernel decided it would be a good idea to > use yet another language for something, obviously Python wasn't good > enough.... > > Thoughts on the magically multiplying Rubies would be greatly > appreciated, > > Andrew
Won't portage let you remove any of them? On my system only qtwebkit and webkit-gtk need ruby, and they seem happy to accept version 2.2.6. Nothing apparently to do with the kernel. -- Regards, Peter.
