I have setup most major linux distros to run rails and without a doubt my favorite is gentoo by a wide margin. I used to favor debian/ubuntu but the way they mangle the ruby packages totally turned me off. WHen i tell gentoo to emerge ruby , it does so without leaving parts of the stdlib out.
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What parts are being left out? When I do
apt-cache search ruby|grep stdlib
I get nothing.
Lots. I can't remember the full list as it's been a while, but openssl was one. Worse, they even change the names. Like openssl is shortened to ssl, etc.. Debian/ubuntu are nice distro's, but I hate the way they break things up into so many packages. It no longer makes sense in a world where disk space is so cheap, not that it ever made that much sense IMO anyways. Not having such and such dev library installed is the root of so many questions on list after list, and it's a huge time waster for the majority of end users.
And not to poke too much fun at Debian, but maybe all the time spent breaking up things like ruby into 20 different pieces is why they can't get a release out to save their lives.
Chris
Lots. I can't remember the full list as it's been a while, but openssl was one. Worse, they even change the names. Like openssl is shortened to ssl, etc..
Seems named properly to me:
apt-cache search ruby|grep ssl
libopenssl-ruby - OpenSSL interface for Ruby libopenssl-ruby1.9 - OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.9 libopenssl-ruby1.8 - OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.8
Debian/ubuntu are nice distro's, but I hate the way they break things up into so many packages.
How is this different from Gentoo's 161 'ruby' packages? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ruby
It no longer makes sense in a world where disk space is so cheap, not that it ever made that much sense IMO anyways.
It makes perfect sense. If you don't need it then you don't have it forced on you, just like USE flags in Gentoo.
Not having such and such dev library installed is the root of so many questions on list after list, and it's a huge time waster for the majority of end users.
People who need help ask questions. If you don't want to help them or be bothered by their 'huge time waster' type of questions, then unsubscribe from the list.
And not to poke too much fun at Debian, but maybe all the time spent breaking up things like ruby into 20 different pieces is why they can't get a release out to save their lives.
There was a release just last month: http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106
which was _after_ Gentoo's last release: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20060830-release.xml