Re: Retirement of Ruby 1.8.7

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:26:59AM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> In message <20150226132905.GB2289%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> 	on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:29:05 +0100,
> 	Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:37:32PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> >> Currently, these packages are supported by ruby18 only and Cc'ed to
> >> tech-pkg@ and MAINTAINER of these packages.
> >> 
> >> 	audio/amarok-kde3
> > 
> > Does Amarok really need Ruby? That sounds wrong.
> Have you read README file?
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  DEPENDENCIES
> ==============
> 
> Required
>     * KDE-Libs 3.3 (or newer)
>       http://www.kde.org
> 
>     * TagLib 1.4 (or newer)
>       (metadata tagging library)
>       http://freshmeat.net/projects/taglib
> 
>     * Ruby 1.8
>       (programming language, used for scoring, lyrics, last.fm streams)
>       http://www.ruby-lang.org

So a few plugins that can be disabled. That's not that essential.

Joerg