On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:34:26AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:47:20 +0900, Tom Payne wrote: > > Dependencies are [should be] handled by the package management > > system. John, your wish has already come true on Gentoo and Debian > > systems :-) > > Doesn't help those of us who choose not to use Gentoo or Debian. (I > use SuSE when I use Linux; I also use Windows XP.) Frankly, I don't > *want* the OS to manage my Ruby libraries; they're typically much > more lightweight than C libraries. As for me, I'd like the OS to manage everything, it does just great :-) [*] I guess we cannot *all* be happy... unless we provide an _optional_ way to integrate the Ruby module installation into the system-dependent package management system. [*] yes, I use Debian ;) -- _ _ | |__ __ _| |_ ___ _ __ ___ __ _ _ __ | '_ \ / _` | __/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ | |_) | (_| | |_\__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | | |_.__/ \__,_|\__|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable) batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs... It was very silly. -- Matt Welsh