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 ;)

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