On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 9/22/07, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2 / sourcepole.ch> wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Rick DeNatale wrote: > >>> One more strike against using Debian packaged Ruby! >> >> If I infer correctly it's rather one more strike against compiling with >> the "--enable-pthread" switch. So while it's yet another oportunity of >> Debian bashing I guess the more clever option would be to ask why >> "--enable-pthread" sucks so bad and whether ____Ubuntu____ (note that >> possibly Debian uses it too, I don't know) should switch it off... > > I'm not bashing Debian in general, just the Debian approach to Ruby packaging. > > In general I'm quite happy with Debian/Ubuntu, but not with deb packaged Ruby. Shall I bite? So what's wrong with Debian's Ruby packaging and what would be the proper way? (AFAIcan see the above problem doesn't have anything to do with Debian's packaging but instead with a compile flag?) *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions -----------------------------------------------------------