On 27/05/08 at 09:58 -0000, Neil Wilson wrote: > 2008/5/24 Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Right. I'm waiting for your patch. > > Ok. Lucas. I'm going to send a patch via Ubuntu.
Feel free me to subscribe me to the bug. > The patch will be to > include /var/lib/gems/xxx/bin in the system path within the rubygems > module. There are plenty of bugs here on Launchpad complaining about > that little 'oversight'. And I know it irritates the very devil out of > everybody using Ubuntu Ruby to get real things done. In fact the > standard approach is to do a 'gem update --system' after installation > to get back to the normal gem infrastructure. > > If you can get your team to accept that within the Debian rubygems > package then we have a fighting chance of moving forward together. I'd prefer if it went upstream, if applicable. > If not then there may have to be some sort of fork. > > > Sure. Try to talk to the gems developer about that. I'm sure they will > > listen to you. You might want to have a look at the ML archives first, > > though, it's not like we tried. But I'm not going to engage with another > > hateful discussion with the rubygems developers. > > I don't find them that bad. But then I have a slightly more pragmatic > position with Rubygems and a very, very large itch that I need to > scratch. My mistake so far has been to try to reach them through ruby-core. Trying to contact them directly might be more successful, as you will avoid Austin Ziegler. > I will talk to Eric, et al and see if we can come to some accommodation. > > As to the substance of this bug, I can live with the splitting of the > Ruby1.9 system into the sub-packages if they are pulled back together > into a single point somehow. It would be much better if ruby1.8 and > ruby1.9 pulled them all back together again for the average user. I'm not sure you understand the rationale for splitting ruby1.9. > Would it not be more sensible to have a ruby1.8-core and ruby1.9-core > package to allow minimalist dependencies but incorporate gem1.8 and > gem1.9 (along with irb, ri, rdoc) in the ruby1.8/ruby1.9 packages and > target them at those developing with the language? It already exists, it's called ruby-full: Package: ruby-full [..] Depends: irb, libdbm-ruby, libgdbm-ruby, libopenssl-ruby, libreadline-ruby, rdoc, ri, ruby, ruby1.8-dev Recommends: libtcltk-ruby, ruby-elisp But currently, it pulls ruby1.8, since that's the default version, not ruby1.9. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- gem1.9 - require 'rdoc/template' fails - missing dependency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228345 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
