Re: [gentoo-dev] Files owned by multiple slots

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le lundi 11 mai 2009 à 11:14 +0200, Sven Schwyn a écrit :
> Hi
>
> This question popped up while discussing how to deal with Ruby gems
> on
> Gentoo in a way that gives the user the freedom to choose Portage,
> RubyGems or both for gem management.
[snip]
> If a Ruby gem contains and installs executables, then those are mere
> wrappers to a Ruby runner object. As per default, the wrapper will run
> the most up-to-date code. You can, however, tell the wrapper to run a
> specific code version (e.g. rake _0.7.3_ --version).

so this wrapper could be installed in a separate eselect sort of
package ?

If those kind of wrappers are generic enough, it could even be a single
eselect package and gems would enable (symlink to wrapper) themselves at
postinst. I'm an eselect n00b but this all sound like something an
eselect module could do.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo