Hi.

In message <20051001182712.GA4759@kafka>
	on Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:27:12 +0000,
	Leonard Schmidt <lems@gmx.net> wrote:
> Is there any good reason for not symlinking the executable or even
> installing it as ruby?  Being able to install both ruby-1.6 and
> ruby-1.8?  Any other?
Yes, it is to allow installing multiple versions of ruby (like python).
And pkgsrc/lang/ruby gives specific symbolic link to ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby.

Cheers.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>