[sup-talk] unable to sup-sync (new install)

[Kevin Mark]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:38:52AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:12:15 -0700, William Morgan wrote:
> >Excerpts from Kevin Mark's message of Sun Sep 16 20:26:44 -0700 2007:
> >> sudo gem install sup -y
> >> 
> >> To run 'sup', I needed to add 'export
> >> PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:"${PATH}"' to .bashrc
> >
> >This is a symptom of how Ubuntu deals with gems. Unfortunately there's
> >not a lot I can do about it from my end.
> 
> There is one thing you _can_ do--make sup easy to package by providing a
> setup.rb or install.rb for installation.
> 
> Ruby gems and Python eggs seem to suffer from the same problem; they
> don't just deal with packaging but also with versioning and they do it
> in a way that makes packaging in Linux distros difficult.
> 
> See http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html for Debian's
> position on gems.
> 
> /M
If my understanding is correct, these 'gems' thingies are packages which
are outside of the perview of dpkg or other packaging system. Which
means it would be great if someone found a way for their status to be
communicated to the packaging system?

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