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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is infesting my machine
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 07:03:45
Message-Id: 559633C6.4010007@wht.com.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is infesting my machine by Hans de Graaff
1 On 07/03/2015 02:27 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote:
2 > On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:53:39 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Does anyone know how I can prevent this infestation from
6 > happening?
7 >
8 > It may not be possible since some packages require ruby to be present
9 > unconditionally, e.g. webkit-gtk has a built-time dependency on ruby, and
10 > the thin-provisioning-tools have a dependency on ruby with FEATURES=test.
11 > There are other packages with similar requirements.
12 >
13 > Hans
14 >
15 >
16 >
17
18 Valid point, but shouldn't putting "-ruby" in make.conf throw up all
19 sorts of warnings/errors?
20
21 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is infesting my machine Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>