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libgems-ruby package

  1. Bug #145267
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 145267

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote : Re: [Bug 145267] Re: Add rubygems bin to PATH

On 28/05/08 at 14:25 -0000, Neil Wilson wrote:
> 2008/5/28 Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>:
>
> > Installing to /usr/local/bin could sound acceptable to me. Not sure if
> > that will be acceptable for the other ruby maintainers in Debian.
>
> Could this be solved with the alternatives system I wonder. The gem
> installations are after all alternatives to apt packages.

That would require hacking rubygems quite deeply. If rubygems provided
some hooks that we could use to implement distro-specific stuff, why
not. But it's not the case, AFAIK.

It could bite us back, by breaking things in subtle ways.

What is the problem with installing to /usr/local/bin? It's in the
default system path, and it's before /usr/bin and /bin.

> That way it would work with gem1.9 as well. Apt packages could
> override with a higher priority.

If we install to /usr/local/bin, and you gem1.9 update --system, you
will get a new gem executable in /usr/local/bin, that will "override"
(by precedence in the path) Debian's.
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