Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:18:23 -0800 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@gmail.com> Cc: ruby@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What changed? (gem command missing in 1.9) Message-ID: <20111111181823.089d72be.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGDxMR51-yk0fUOdBUBmEC1ntXS2eA-QEpkS5Ymtp95jf0u7mw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGDxMR66_1GexKFbN2bu9%2B-T%2BrxJ-UHW5WsfLJQvqMG7M=m66A@mail.gmail.com> <20111111143115.5bf5d195.stas@FreeBSD.org> <CAGDxMR4P3TiJkTkk4o=gTW5-Hj6my2bsgc9j6aX=EwanPJ0MNw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGDxMR51-yk0fUOdBUBmEC1ntXS2eA-QEpkS5Ymtp95jf0u7mw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:52:07 -0700 "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@gmail.com> mentioned: > I'm not familiar with the inner workings of FreeBSD's port system, but > is it possible that issues like 'gem' and 'rake' suddenly no longer > being part of the lang/ruby19 port (due to the aforementioned outdated > versions) could be dealt with during some sort of post-install hook > while installing the lang/ruby19 port, a hook that could then install > devel/ruby-gems and devel/rubygem-rake ports so that the executables > that previously were always part of lang/ruby19 will still be > automatically installed with that port? > Yes, we can actually do that. We're discussing the possibility of making lang/ruby19 to depend on ruby-gems and rake, thus having ruby19 installation automatically install rake and gem as well. But nobody did that yet. I agree tought that should have been done at the moment the gem binary was dropped from ruby19, but I think we just forgot about this at the end. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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