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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:12:16
Message-Id: 29535.1403887169@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 27 June 2014 08:16:08 Hans de Graaff wrote:
4 > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
5 > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
6 > > > "virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18]"
7 > > > have been masked.
8 > >
9 > > You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the
10 > > ruby18 RUBY_TARGET. It's not immediately clear which package that is from
11 > > the output, but I suspect dev-ruby/rubygems? Re-emerging the packages
12 > > still installed for ruby18 should fix this.
13 >
14 > Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A
15 > little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin-
16 > provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2 I could
17 > get rid of ruby altogether.
18 >
19 > This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering.
20
21 What exactly does this do -- is it for a thin client or something?
22
23
24 --
25 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
26 How do
27 you spend it?
28
29 John Covici
30 covici@××××××××××.com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>