Re: pkg/29227: ruby18 digest/md5 not available

[Curt Sampson <cjs%cynic.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/29227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Curt Sampson <cjs%cynic.net@localhost>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, taca%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/29227: ruby18 digest/md5 not available
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:20:32 +0900 (JST)

 On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:03:14PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
 >> Webrick was installed already. Why do I have to install it again?
 >
 > I'm not sure what you're talking about.
 > You had webrick installed before you installed the ruby package?
 
 No. Webbrick is a standard part of ruby 1.8. Any installation of ruby
 1.8 that does not include webbrick is incomplete, in the same way that
 any installation of ruby 1.6 that does not include, say, the File class,
 is incomplete.
 
 > I think the point of the ruby18 package in pkgsrc is to install
 > the basics and split up additional modules in separate packages.
 > taca probably knows this better.
 
 In which case we are installing an incomplete ruby 1.8. Why would we
 want to do that?
 
 > So in other words, you're missing a package that installs ruby
 > and "all" its modules? Can you say what "all" the modules you
 > expect are?
 
 No. I'm missing a package that installs the basic ruby 1.8 release.
 
 If we're going to create a different package that installs the complete
 ruby 1.8, we should rename the current ruby18 appropriately, say, as
 "ruby18-incomplete" or "ruby18-missing-standard-classes".
 
 cjs
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