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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: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:30:02
Message-Id: 52A81474.1030704@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others by Bruce Hill
1 On 11/12/2013 04:02, Bruce Hill wrote:
2 > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>> mingdao@workstation ~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf
5 >>> RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20"
6 >>>
7 >>> Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D
8 >>>
9 >>
10 >>
11 >> You could say that:
12 >>
13 >> $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage
14 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin
15 >> volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools
16 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use: # which needs ruby. I do not want
17 >> ruby.
18 >> /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- sys-fs/lvm2 -thin
19 >>
20 >>
21 >>
22 >> But the real reason I don't have ruby is I don't have a use for it
23 >
24 > I detest python, also, but there's no way w/out it.
25 >
26
27 I like python - the language was designed by a mathematician and it
28 shows. Contrast with perl which was designed by a linguist, and that
29 shows too.
30
31 As you say you can't run Gentoo with portage without Python, that's one
32 of the things you know for sure up front.
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36 --
37 Alan McKinnon
38 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>