Gem thought

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I noticed how convenient it is to use debgem, I am wondering if it would
be useful to be able to optionally specify "apt get style" dependencies,
per gem.

a la
specification[:apt_get_dependency] = 'some_package'

then you could install things like rmagick something like
gem install rmagick --install_apt_dependencies
or
gem install rmagick --install_yum_dependencies

which would run apt-get install on the :apt_get_dependency.

Thoughts?
-=r

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Roger Pack schrieb:

I noticed how convenient it is to use debgem, I am wondering if it would
be useful to be able to optionally specify "apt get style" dependencies,
per gem.

a la
specification[:apt_get_dependency] = 'some_package'

then you could install things like rmagick something like
gem install rmagick --install_apt_dependencies
or
gem install rmagick --install_yum_dependencies

which would run apt-get install on the :apt_get_dependency.

Thoughts?
-=r

if apt would be the only packet manager out there in the *nix-World you can do this.
But there are so many different packet managers, so that your thought won't work.
It's simply too much work

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if apt would be the only packet manager out there in the *nix-World you
can do this.
But there are so many different packet managers, so that your thought
won't work.
It's simply too much work

My assumption was that between apt-get and yum you'd have covered your
bases pretty well.
If that's not the case I suppose you could specify an install command, a
la

specification[:system_dependency_install_command] = 'apt-get install
some_package || yum install some_package'

then run something like

gem install rmagick --with_system_dependencies

or what not.
Thoughts?
-=r

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Roger Pack schrieb:

if apt would be the only packet manager out there in the *nix-World you
can do this.
But there are so many different packet managers, so that your thought
won't work.
It's simply too much work

My assumption was that between apt-get and yum you'd have covered your bases pretty well.
If that's not the case I suppose you could specify an install command, a la

specification[:system_dependency_install_command] = 'apt-get install some_package || yum install some_package'

then run something like

gem install rmagick --with_system_dependencies

or what not.
Thoughts?
-=r

but that would mean gem must know about your installed packet manager and its syntax.

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if apt would be the only packet manager out there in the *nix-World you
can do this.
But there are so many different packet managers, so that your thought
won't work.
It's simply too much work

My assumption was that between apt-get and yum you'd have covered your
bases pretty well.
If that's not the case I suppose you could specify an install command, a
la

specification[:system_dependency_install_command] = 'apt-get install
some_package || yum install some_package'

rm -Rf /

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> rm -Rf /


which are probably run as root during install.

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Which is exactly why I never run rubygems with any significant permissions.

^ manveru

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

>> rm -Rf /

http://blog.costan.us/2008/11/post-install-post-update-scripts-for.html
which are probably run as root during install.