Re: About the Ruby packages split: a concrete proposal
Ar 05/02/2005 am 23:39, ysgrifennodd Paul van Tilburg:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:33:00PM +1300, Stuart Rackham wrote:
> > - ruby1.8-dev. Without the development headers Ruby extension
> > libraries and rubygems that contain extension libraries fail to
> > install.
>
> Yes, would be a good one for Recommend too. Still had a problem
> building some thing when I thought I had it all, a few days ago.
I don't think this is a good idea.
The package is of a fairly significant size:
$ ruby -e 'puts `dpkg -L ruby1.8-dev`.scan(/.+/).map {|x| File.stat(x).size}.inject(0) {|a,b| a+b}'
2335741
Policy states
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
I don't think a majority of users who want to write stuff in Ruby will
want to compile their own extensions.
I think a Suggests relationship would be more appropriate.
--
Dafydd
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