My personal random comments.

In message <20020618184232.D7CFEAC@proven.weird.com>
	on Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:42:32 -0400 (EDT),
	woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> I'd very much rather that devel/ruby-readline (and thus devel/readline)
> not be a dependency for the lang/ruby meta package.  I'm trying very
> hard to avoid having to have GNU Readline on some production machines
> that really don't need it, and I personally don't need ruby-readline,
> though I do need ruby-base and various other Ruby packages on those
Most of Ruby packages don't depend on ruby meta package but ruby-base
package.  So, why do you need ruby meta package?

> What do more experienced Ruby users say?  Is ruby-readline really
> expected to be a core library now?  (I don't see it mentioned in the
> Thomas & Hunt book.)
Because ruby-readline is includeded in Ruby distribution; currently
ruby-1.6.7.tar.gz.  And Ruby tend to take in more libraries to core
library.

> (what is the likelyhood of ruby-readline ever using NetBSD readline(3)?)
USE_GNU_READLINE=	# uses rl_event_hook interface to GNU readline

P.S.
Ruby core binary itself contains modified GNU regex covered by LGPL.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>