Jim Freeze said: > Gems is giving me fits with uninstalling activerecord, > however, it uninstalls rails just fine. > > gem uninstall activerecord -v 1.8.0 > Config file /Users/jdf/.gemrc does not exist > Attempting to uninstall gem 'activerecord' > You have requested to uninstall the gem: > activerecord-1.3.0 > activerecord-1.4.0 > activerecord-1.6.0 > activerecord-1.5.1 > activerecord-1.8.0 > rails-0.9.2 depends on [activerecord (>= 1.3.0)] > If you remove this gem, the dependency will not be met. The current gems software is a bit sloppy in its dependency evaluations while deleting. While it is true that rails-0.9.2 has a dependency that is satisified by activerecord-1.8.0, it apparent from the listed dependencies that the dependency is also satisfied by all the versions 1.3.0 through 1.5.1. Removing 1.8.0 shouldn't be a problem because there are other versions of activerecord that can be used. RubyGems 0.8.7 (out later this week) will handle this better. > Uninstall anyway? [yN] n If you would have said "Yes, uninstall anyways", then the gem would have been uninstalled as you intended. The CVS version of gems will only ask you about the /last/ gem that satisfies a dependency. -- -- Jim Weirich jim / weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)