Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ruby (28 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-03-30 21:08:57 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx> [Mar 30. 2011 17:36]:
> > > Still there will be people out there relying on specific versions of
> > > gems. And I don't see a way to support them without *a lot* of manual
> > > effort (and package renames :-/)
> >
> > the only real solution to having multiple versions of the same gem
> > installed is the approach with suffixes on package names.
>
> Hmm, gem and rpm support multiple installed versions of the same
> gem/package. So the limitation is the build service.

rpms supports it somehow. how well are all package manager on top of it
handle it?

> Can we automate suffixes on package names somehow ?

no. we dont want that.

    darix

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