Review for rubygem-rack1

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:36 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> I put together a package for rubygem-rack1 (version 1.1) for EPEL5.
> It is needed for things like Sinatra, Shotgun and newer versions of
> rails.  I would love somebody could do a review so we could have it
> inside EPEL5.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617228
> 
> Basically, I just made it conflict with rubygem-rack.  Future packages
> that require rack > 1.1 could just require rubygem-rack1  instead of
> rubygem-rack.

Here's an evil idea: do you think it would be possible to get the yum
standard config changed so that all rubygem-* packages will install
instead of update (i.e. leave old versions on the machine, just as
it'sdone for kernel) ?

This would make it possible to install multiple versions of gems, just
as the gem system was designed. It would get rid of the biggest
objection of using rpm-packaged gems, while avoiding the heinous issues
with 'gem install' (like running gcc at install time)

David