Hi,
I wonder if there are any good reason to *not* purge the ruby-*
packages?
There are many good reasons to do it:
- upstream generally does not support distro packaging, instead, they
prefer that `gem` package manager is used instead.
- many of the ruby-* packages are broken
- its very time consuming to upgrade things
- its very easy to break things when upgrading
- its almost impossible to provide security fixes for the distro
packaged ruby-*
If there are any good reason to keep the ruby-* packages, then I'd like
to know, before I purge them.
-nc
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
> If there are any good reason to keep the ruby-* packages, then I'd like> to know, before I purge them.
I would argue in favor of keeping a handful, such as ruby-rake and ruby-irb,
which are subpackages of ruby [1] and are generally useful outside of bundles.
I might argue in favor of keeping ruby-pry since it's generally useful
outside of bundles.
I find it hard to argue in favor of keeping any packages that are
available via rubygems.
[1] http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/ruby/APKBUILD
-paul
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Hi,
please keep all the ruby package subpackages (like ruby-rake, ruby-irb, …) and also ruby-bundler (this is a separate package). Other ruby-* packages are probably unnecessary.
I would also suggest to check if there are any specific patches in ruby-* packages, especially for native extensions to be buildable on musl; these may be candidates for keeping.
Jakub J.
On 28. Apr 2016, at 17:48, Paul Morgan <jumanjiman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:>> If there are any good reason to keep the ruby-* packages, then I'd like>> to know, before I purge them.> > > I would argue in favor of keeping a handful, such as ruby-rake and ruby-irb,> which are subpackages of ruby [1] and are generally useful outside of bundles.> > I might argue in favor of keeping ruby-pry since it's generally useful> outside of bundles.> > I find it hard to argue in favor of keeping any packages that are> available via rubygems.> > [1] http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/ruby/APKBUILD> > > -paul> > > ---> Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org> Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org> --->
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:03:30 +0200
Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> wrote:
> Hi,> > please keep all the ruby package subpackages (like ruby-rake,> ruby-irb, *) and also ruby-bundler (this is a separate package).> Other ruby-* packages are probably unnecessary.
all ruby subpackages will be kept ofcourse.
> > I would also suggest to check if there are any specific patches in> ruby-* packages, especially for native extensions to be buildable on> musl; these may be candidates for keeping.
ruby-rmagick, ruby-pg i think. But there should not be any problems
with building those with gem. just make sure that the build deps are
there.
-nc
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