[DRE-maint] Bug report: rubygems should depend on ruby-dev

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Sat Oct 16 06:21:39 UTC 2010


On 14/10/10 at 15:49 +0800, Hanxue Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I wish to report that the rubygems package should have dependency on the
> ruby-dev package. Otherwise when installing using the "gem" command, this
> error will result:

Hi,

Not all gems require extconf. and the rubygems1.8 package already
suggests ruby1.8-dev. I think it's reasonable to leave it like that: we
can't guess all the -dev packages that are required to build a specfic
gem.

- Lucas



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