On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Simon Hanna <simon.hanna@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since ruby allready comes with a package manager (mentioned earlier), I > never downloaded anything from the aur, but used rubygems instead. My > question is, if we really need to have all these packages in the aur. Isn't > it easier to manage everything with rubygems?? As someone who doesn't develop in Ruby at all, is it really true that ruby comes with a package manager (as defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system)? In particular, does it support 1. removal of packages 2. non-ruby dependencies The reason I'm interested is that in the Haskell community this question comes up every now and then, at which point we often point to http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-a-package-manager/ :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
