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

From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
Cc: wiz@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, taca@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29227: ruby18 digest/md5 not available
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:08:30 +0900 (JST)

 On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
 
 > Ruby original distribution was divided into separate packages in order
 > to minimumize dependency to external packages and to keep base Ruby
 > package small.
 
 What external dependencies does this get rid of. How much smaller does
 it make it?
 
 I have no problem with stuff that's optionally installed by the standard
 ruby distribution (such as readline) being a separate package. However,
 I think that any class that's always available in ruby18 as downloaded
 and built from www.ruby-lang.org should be in our ruby18 package. To do
 otherwise is just to invite technical support problems.
 
 If you truly see a need for leaving stuff out, let's make a separate
 ruby18-small package with the stripped down stuff, and make the ruby18
 package require that and whatever else is needed to get a standard ruby.
 
 cjs
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