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

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
To: cjs@cynic.net
Cc: wiz@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, taca@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29227: ruby18 digest/md5 not available
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:10:11 +0900 (JST)

 In message <Pine.NEB.4.61.0502081502480.16787@angelic-vtfw.cvpn.cynic.net>
 	on Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:08:30 +0900 (JST),
 	Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> 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?
 As for security/ruby-digest, it originate from FreeBSD's ports which
 was base of current Ruby packages and external dependency is message
 digest libraries.  On Linux, ruby-digest might depend on OpenSSL's
 library (but current ruby-digest dosen't care for it).
 
 Anyway, I'm willing to merge ruby-digest pacakge to ruby${RUBY_VER}
 package.
 
 -- 
 Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>