On Monday 13 Jan 2014 13:17:13 Magnus Therning wrote: > 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 * Yes, Rubygems is a package manager. * It is geared toward packaging ruby code and binary extensions. * It can remove packages entirely or clean out all but the latest version. * It can not handle non-ruby dependencies, except for those that can be compiled into a native ruby extension, which becomes part of the installed gem. * It wouldn't be a good choice for a language other than ruby. It is really quite domain- specific. Paul
