[DRE-maint] Bug#448639: Taking this to the CTTE?

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 28/08/10 at 21:31 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Hi Daigo,
> 
> using /var/lib/gems is really quite annoying, and I have meant to write
> something along the lines of what Clint Byrum wrote a few messages ago.
> Sure, using /usr/local isn't ideal, but that's a choice that's up to the
> local system administrator; what you're effectively doing is just
> forcing people to jump through a hoop and having to add
> /var/lib/gems/bin to the default path, which is really quite silly.  The
> lack of consistency with what CPAN does is also annoying as we're making
> a distribution, not just packaging a bunch of software.
> 
> So, please, please change this.  If you don't want to change this, I'll
> take this to the CTTE so they can rule on this.

While I support the idea of using /usr/local (I even submitted this bug
back in 2007), I find it incredible that you threaten to take this to
the TC.

There has been basically no activity on this bug between december 2007
and now. On August 26th, a Canonical employee restarts that discussion,
and two days later, another Canonical employee threatens to take it to
the TC?  Come on! Can't we have at least one week of peaceful discussion
before you light up the flames?

Also, I don't see anything in the bug report about the way you expect
the transition from /var/lib to /usr/local to happen. It would be great
to investigate this and propose something in the form of a patch if this
issue has suddenly become so urgent for you.

Lucas