Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:33:31 BST Andrew Lowe wrote:

> I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile,
> I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update.
> Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting
> to update:
> 
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3]
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-lang/ruby-2.3.4-r4 [2.3.4-r3]
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-lang/ruby-2.2.7-r4 [2.2.7-r3]
> 
> Have I managed to stuff up something on my machine or is this really the
> case, there has to be three versions? And to make matters worse, they
> are not big version jumps, + 0.1 -> 2.2, 2.3 & 2.4.
> 
> I would prefer to get rid of Ruby, but, if memory serves me correctly,
> someone associated with the kernel decided it would be a good idea to
> use yet another language for something, obviously Python wasn't good
> enough....
> 
> Thoughts on the magically multiplying Rubies would be greatly
> appreciated,
> 
> 		Andrew

Won't portage let you remove any of them? On my system only qtwebkit and 
webkit-gtk need ruby, and they seem happy to accept version 2.2.6. Nothing 
apparently to do with the kernel.

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Regards,
Peter.