hi, with gentoo what is better? install things with ebuild/emerge or
with gem? for example rails, capistrano, etc
Some people like to only deal with one package manager (gem is just
portage for Ruby really). However, Portage is probably going to be a bit
behind the gem version, and there will probably be some gems that just
aren’t available in Portage.
I guess it really just depends on how big a fan of Portage you are. A
sane strategy might be to just install Ruby and Rubygems from Portage
and then do everything else from gems. Ymmv.
b
On Mar 15, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ben M. wrote:
b
david wrote:
hi, with gentoo what is better? install things with ebuild/emerge or
with gem? for example rails, capistrano, etc
On all my gentoo systems we install ruby and rubygems from portage
and then install gems thru rubygems from then on. That being said
portage is smart about gems and when you install a gem thru portage
it merges it into your rubygems install as if you installed it via
rubygems, pretty slick. But I still prefer to have rubygems manage
all gems.
Cheers-
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Though it is not standard Gentoo practice, I follow Ezra’s example,
and install ruby and rubygems from the tree, and manage all the gems
with the gem command thereafter.
Aaron K.
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That, and I need to apologize for my earlier top-post. I was keying
that in from a phone, and there wasn’t a way to do it right.
So if I ruffled any feathers, it wasn’t intentional. 
Cheers,
Aaron K.
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