From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 693AB1396D0 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2017 13:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C6381FC03B; Sat, 2 Sep 2017 13:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pecan2.exetel.com.au (pecan2-mail.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93F1E0D3C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2017 13:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 217.249.70.115.static.exetel.com.au ([115.70.249.217] helo=[192.168.14.1]) by pecan2.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1do8YD-0007m3-8E for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 23:33:29 +1000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Andrew Lowe Subject: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously???? Organization: Wombat High Tech Message-ID: <7b8d7e5b-51d5-2bc2-e1be-e4c9e5510bda@wht.com.au> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 21:33:31 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d80ee2b0-fe9e-4ea9-be68-ca7a64ccae91 X-Archives-Hash: c6d21dd48f9f78e2fbafe2ee6176b6bb Hi all, 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