[gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

[Grant Edwards]

My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed
to install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related
packages.  This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby
can't coexist: (something to do with tk and threads).

I've never had Ruby installed before, and after some digging around, I
finally tracked it down to two things:

gnome-terminal->nautilus->webkit->ruby
multipath-tools->thin-provisioning-tools->ruby

These both seem to be new dependancies.

After uninstalling gnome-terminal, multipath-tools, and
thin-provisioning-tools all is good (the update proceding sans Ruby).

I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that
requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of
Ruby all of a sudden?

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