Michael DeHaan
12/18/2004 11:43:00 PM
Debian does this with all languages, but it's very good in the long
run for doing so. There is little distinction between the stdlib and
other packages, and you upgrade all at will....
Perl is this way, Python is that way, etc. It's a little annoying
the first time you want to get Rails or something running but just
check each error message to find the missing deps...
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:47:14 +0900, Stefan Schmiedl <s@xss.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:44:17 GMT,
> Thursday <nospam@nospam.nospam.nospam.nospam.org> wrote:
> > I'd like to install Ruby on a Debian server.
> >
> > Is it better to install the latest stable snapshot or install the Debian
> > package? What are the pros and cons?
>
> Some of them are:
>
> if you install the package, you can install other packages
> that depend on ruby.
>
> if you tar-make-install the stable snapshot, the system
> won't know that you have ruby installed.
>
> packaged libraries are more convenient to install (which is equally
> true for apt, gems and rpa)
>
> For some time, I had a dual setup: packaged ruby below /usr
> snapshot below /usr/local with PATH and #! preferring /usr/local.
>
> > I'm also wondering if there are any problems caused by using Debian's
> > Ruby package with something like RubyGems where one doesn't know what
> > the other installed.
>
> you can confuse your system, if you install the same library twice
> and remove one.
>
> s.
>
>