On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:29:31 -0500, Michael Greenly wrote: > Rick Denatale wrote: >> On Nov 20, 2007 12:53 AM, Michael Greenly <mgreenly / gmail.com> wrote: >>> RubyGems has really become the one thing about Ruby I dislike. >>> >>> >> My way of looking a this is the brain-dead packaging of Ruby on debian >> is the one thing about Ubuntu (and Debian based distros) that *I* >> dislike. >> >> The problems you've experienced, I think, come from trying to mix >> debian packaged ruby with source installed gems. >> >> When I first started using Ruby on Ubuntu I ran into problems like >> this. At Andy Hunt's suggestion I installed both Ruby and rubygems >> from source and haven't looked back. >> >> -- >> Rick DeNatale >> >> My blog on Ruby >> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > > Hardly... in all package managed systems /usr/lib belongs to the package > manager. No other application should ever be mucking around in there. > This is not something unique to Debian based systems. It's just that > Debian users tend to be more more vocal about these policies. > > The system package currently in Ubuntu for RubyGems just about gets it > right. They most likely should of disabled the 'system' update feature > so that it wasn't possible to do what I did. I have filed a bug in Debian regarding this. See http:// bugs.debian.org/452547 --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/