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On Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:33:31 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, |
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> I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. |
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> Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting |
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> to update: |
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> [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3] |
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> [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.3.4-r4 [2.3.4-r3] |
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> [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.2.7-r4 [2.2.7-r3] |
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> Have I managed to stuff up something on my machine or is this really the |
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> case, there has to be three versions? And to make matters worse, they |
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> are not big version jumps, + 0.1 -> 2.2, 2.3 & 2.4. |
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> I would prefer to get rid of Ruby, but, if memory serves me correctly, |
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> someone associated with the kernel decided it would be a good idea to |
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> use yet another language for something, obviously Python wasn't good |
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> enough.... |
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> Thoughts on the magically multiplying Rubies would be greatly |
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> appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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Won't portage let you remove any of them? On my system only qtwebkit and |
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webkit-gtk need ruby, and they seem happy to accept version 2.2.6. Nothing |
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apparently to do with the kernel. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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