Packaging guidelines - Bundler

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:40:52AM -0800, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> I really dislike bundler.  However, from the Ruby ecosystem point of view,
> it's there and it's not going anywhere.  It featured on every rubygem page.
>  It certainly conflicts with the bundled library viewpoint Fedora has, but
> without it, many many applications built upon Ruby won't make it into
> Fedora.  This is especially true since rpm by design cannot have multiple
> versions of the same package installed; whereas gem can.

Sure it can. Look at kernel as an example. It depends on how the package
is installed as to whether the rpm will upgrade an existing package or
install in parallel (and also other factors such as locations of files,
etc.).

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