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I prefer gems and CPAN, although my sysadmin hates both.  For him, it's
easier to create a rpm that he can install on the other 50 boxes.

Charlie Bowman
www.recentrambles.com

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 01:51 +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> On May 8, 2006, at 11:09 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 
> > On May 8, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Jason Clinton wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:54 +0900, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> >>> Please do not try to speak for the entire Ruby community with a  
> >>> statement like the above, which most here would agree is wrong.  
> >>> RubyGems are not just for Windows, but for all supported Ruby  
> >>> platforms.
> >>
> >> I disagree. RubyGems should only be used on Linux when a package  
> >> is not available from you distribution. Did you read the linked page?
> >
> > You are welcome to disagree.  You are not welcome to speak for me.
> >
> > James Edward Gray II
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I agree with James. Do they have a similar rant about CPAN? I recall  
> using CPAN on Debian back when I used Debian, and googling couldn't  
> find anything similar to the page on rubygems about CPAN.
> 
> OTOH, I do believe that user applications probably should not be  
> distributed as gems, or at least not only as gems. But that's another  
> topic, with other reasoning.
>   
> 
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