On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:23:31PM +0000, vincent.fourmond@9online.fr wrote: > > I don't see how: no packages depend on ri, rdoc and irb to provide a full > ruby install. Or at least, nothing that aptitude shows me. So, unless I am very > mistaken, this problem is still on. Moreover, people I wrote to this morning > were using relatively recent debian versions, and they didn't seem to notice > this. When using apt or aptitude, installing ruby gives you ruby1.8 which gives you rdoc1.8 and ri1.8. IRB can be seen as a separate app, thouhg it's a usefull one, so maybe it can be added. > Namely, what has been required is a package ruby-full that would depend on: > > ruby, irb, rdoc, ri, libgdbm-ruby, libdbm-ruby, libruby-extra and maybe the tk > library. The gdbm, dbm, openssl and tk libraries were split of of libruby1.8 for a reason. Maybe Akira can enlighten (again) us about this. I am fine with it, more so because it was a careful compromise at the time. These libraries are almost never used and drag in extra dependancies. Also, IMHO, libruby-extras has nothing to do with it and this possible meta-pkg also lies within the realm of ruby/ruby1.8 core package team. Regards, Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | email: paulvt@debian.org University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: paul@luon.net >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181
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