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

From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29227: ruby18 digest/md5 not available
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:03:14 +0900 (JST)

 On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:48:28PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
 >> Webrick comes with ruby 1.8!
 >
 > I was talking about the webrick package we have in pkgsrc, ruby-webrick.
 >
 >> On a standard ruby 1.8 installation (unpack, "configure", "make install")
 >> 'ruby -e 'require "digest/md5"' works just fine.
 >
 > So it's split up in pkgsrc -- just install the additional package.
 > What's the problem? :)
 
 Webrick was installed already. Why do I have to install it again?
 
 As well, I don't think it's a good idea to have a package called
 "ruby18" install only part of ruby 1.8. Webrick is a core part of
 ruby18.
 
 Pkgsrc is supposed to make life easier. Right now it's easier just to
 download, build and install ruby in /usr/local than it is to use the
 package.
 
 cjs
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