Re: ruby-stdlib virtual package?

[Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:44:42AM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> > At Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:58:31 +0200,  Emiel van de Laar wrote:
> > 
> > > When developing Ruby apps developers assume that the Ruby standard
> > > library is available. I sometimes install Ruby apps that don't come from
> > > Debian packages and then have to install a number of Debian libruby-x
> > > packages... Would it be worth creating a virtual package that installs
> > > all of the standard library packages. This would be a nice addition in
> > > my opinion and make my life a lot easier. I wouldn't have to track down
> > > each individual package...
> > > 
> > > Something like: apt-get install ruby ruby-stdlib
> > 
> >  how about
> >   apt-get install $(grep-available -n -s package -F source -X ruby1.8 | grep lib)
> 
> Heh, that is not so obvious for the average user but works perfectly indeed.
> 
> I think that the virtual package is worth while.  I've heard a lot about
> this on the channel.  I appreciate the modularization of ruby-stdlib (so
> one can purge stuff that leads to unwanted depends), but the ability to
> get it all at once and that this is a Recommand would be a pre.  I've just
> downloaded and installed Instiki, which includes redcloth, bluecloth,
> and madeleine by itself, but it assumed stdlib to be installed (as many
> programs do), so it still didn't work out-of-the box.
> 
> I'd like to draw the analogy here with gst-plugins..  one can install
> them all and have full gstreamer support, or choose to let some out
> because one for example doesn't want libaa or libartsd to be installed.
> But then by dropping gst-plugins installation (refuting the Recommend)
> the reponsibility of keeping everything together is shifted to the user.

Thoughts, please?

Paul

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