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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:22:48
Message-Id: 52A79433.6060304@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others by Norman Invasion
1 On 11/12/2013 00:11, Norman Invasion wrote:
2 > On 10 December 2013 15:33, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 10/12/2013 20:28, Bruce Hill wrote:
5 >>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work
8 >>>> under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict the list of
9 >>>> installed interpreters, use the relevant settings in make.conf. Python
10 >>>> has PYTHON_TARGETS and SINGLE_PYTHON_TARGET for this, I don't know what
11 >>>> the ruby equivalent is.
12 >>>> --
13 >>>> Alan McKinnon
14 >>>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
15 >>>
16 >>> mingdao@workstation ~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf
17 >>> RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20"
18 >>>
19 >>> Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >>
23 >> You could say that:
24 >>
25 >> $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage
26 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin
27 >> volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools
28 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use: # which needs ruby. I do not want
29 >> ruby.
30 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- sys-fs/lvm2 -thin
31 >>
32 >>
33 >>
34 >> But the real reason I don't have ruby is I don't have a use for it
35 >>
36 >
37 > $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask
38 > dev-lang/ruby*
39 > dev-ruby/*
40 >
41 > Because sh, bash, awk, make, scons, cmake, perl,
42 > & two different version of python certainly aren't enough.
43
44 You left out sed :-)
45
46
47 --
48 Alan McKinnon
49 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com