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From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 07:54:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2is7e-bqg.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b8d7e5b-51d5-2bc2-e1be-e4c9e5510bda@wht.com.au

On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 21:33:31 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 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]

That is unusual unless you configured this yourself. Did you set 
RUBY_TARGETS in make.conf? Are you on stable or testing?

It would also be interesting to know what is pulling in these ruby 
versions.

> 	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....

webkit-gtk and thin-provisioning-tools come to mind as pulling ruby for 
people that don't want it perse.

Hans



      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-03  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-02 13:33 [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously???? Andrew Lowe
2017-09-02 13:57 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-09-02 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-09-02 21:37   ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-03  2:18     ` R0b0t1
2017-09-03 10:31       ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-03 20:35         ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04  6:49           ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-04 17:07             ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04 17:49               ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-09-04 21:15                 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04 20:32               ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-04 23:40                 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-05 12:46                 ` konsolebox
2017-09-03  6:08   ` [gentoo-user] " Hans de Graaff
2017-09-03  5:54 ` Hans de Graaff [this message]

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