On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Ryan Davis wrote:
>>> Chad, why does tattle depend on the hoe and rubyforge gems?
>>
>> Uh... because hoe is the single most awesome thing for ruby project
>> development in the last 6 years? It is used in 5% of all rubygems.
>> Get over it.
>
> I think the question is "why is this neat tool useful only to the  
> gem's
> developer required to install the gem on end-user systems?"

% du -sk */*hoe*
12      cache/hoe-1.1.7.gem
104     doc/hoe-1.1.7
40      gems/hoe-1.1.7
4       specifications/hoe-1.1.7.gemspec

In other words, who cares?!?

It sounds like you're complaining simply because it offends your  
sensibilities. If you have a problem with the way gems does  
dependencies, then file a bug with rubygems and/or offer them a well  
tested patch. Otherwise, drop it as it doesn't matter one bit.