Packaging guidelines - Bundler

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:10:20PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> Actually it's an explicit instruction from YUM to RPM, where YUM
> uses the 'installonly_pkgs' configuration directive so that it knows
> to issue this slightly different RPM command to RPM for a certain
> list of package names.
> 
> This is exactly why this mechanism can't (should not) be used for
> Ruby*; the list of packages that would need to be included in this
> list of packages to only install (not update, not upgrade) would be
> enormous, and subject to change quite frequently.

We can create a plugin that does the decision making for us, rather than
maintaining a list of packages. Package name accounting shouldn't be a
reason to do away with a very powerful feature of gems.

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Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.
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