X-Original-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from mail.alpinelinux.org (dallas-a1.alpinelinux.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D08DC0387 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newmail.tetrasec.net (unknown [74.117.189.117]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6AB9DC00E6 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (229.63.200.37.customer.cdi.no [37.200.63.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: n@tanael.org) by newmail.tetrasec.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11F385A12D6 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:54:58 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:54:53 +0200 From: Natanael Copa To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: [alpine-devel] remove ruby-* packages? Message-ID: <20160428165453.4d2cbc9e@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 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 --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---