[DRE-maint] Bug#403407: Bug#403407: Request for comment

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 25/09/08 at 12:21 -0400, Joseph Method wrote:
> Can we reconsider the status of this ticket in light of the proposal on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgems-ruby/+bug/145267 ?
> 
> As I understand it, Neil Wilson patches Rubygems to link files into
> /usr/local/bin and uses the alternatives system to decide whether to load
> ruby1.9 or ruby1.8 gems (I may not understand this part). Many objections
> were raised about creating divergence between Debian and Ubuntu, and also an
> objection was raised about using alternatives as a Debian-only tool. There
> was also a complaint about the use of patching tool.
> 
> Virtues of Neil Wilson's approach are that it avoids adding
> /var/rubygems/bin to the $PATH (by far the easiest approach IMO; I don't
> quite understand the objections myself). I can help with cleaning up his
> patch if his is considered a sound approach.

I think that we should just install the binary wrappers to
/usr/local/bin instead of /var/.../1.{8,9}/bin. That's what rubygems
upstream does anyway (or almost does, I think it installs to /usr/bin).
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