Re: [gentoo-user] ruby problem preventing my world update

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:04:43 -0500,
Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> 
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:41:31PM -0500, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  In trying to do my world update today, I have run into some kind
> > of ruby problem.
> > 
> > When doing the update portage had me add changes, seems mostly to do
> > with add ruby 3.0 as a ruby_target.  Now, I get the following at the
> > end of my world update log
> [...] 
> > 	1: from /usr/lib64/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
> 
> Unlike python, ruby is not very good at selecting a version that works
> so eselect ruby actually matters. Here it's trying to 2.5.0 while it's
> half uninstalled and unsurprisingly fail.
> 
> Have a look at "eselect ruby list" and set a version that's actually in
> RUBY_TARGETS
> 
> With profile's default that'd be "eselect ruby set ruby26" or 30 if
> that's what you're using now.
> 

Thanks a lot, thatdidit, I wonder if ruby25 is used for anything,
maybe after this is done I will see if depclean can  unmerge it.

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