On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM, James Gray  
> <james / grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
>>> with all these meta programmers messing with foundation classes.
>>>
>>> :)
>>
>> I know you are joking here, but I assume people know breaking  
>> String#+ means
>> all bets are off.  :)
>
> Half way joking. Gems are like stray dogs. Some people take home every
> stray they come across, and you can't tell what you are going to get.
> Me, I make the dog earn his room and board. So, I'm probably ok. But,
> if I am bitten it will be because some gem I use has a dependency upon
> a rogue gem. Like merb. It uses facets. My heart sunk the day that was
> added.

I installed merb today from scratch.  facets was not installed:

$ gem install merb -i ~/tmp/gems
[...]
$ ls ~/tmp/gems/specifications/ | grep facets
$ echo $?
1