Subject: Re: Symlinking ruby${RUBY_VER} to ruby?
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/02/2005 14:22:24
On 10/2/05, Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net> wrote:
> 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.

I guess ruby* ought to be converted to use the alternatives framework
(as done with python).

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