Bug 164369

Summary:	Ruby-gems and portage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pieter Steyn <pieter>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Pieter Steyn 2007-01-29 09:44:15 UTC

Ruby-gems is used to install rails/mongrel and their dependencies.  Portage does not recognize that, and wants to install mongrel and its dependencies when installing the new amarok for example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge rubygems
2. gem-install mongrel
3. emerge --sync  
4. emerge -pv amarok
Actual Results:  
Amarok still wants to emerge mongrel.


I'm not sure if this should be a bug, but I know that myself and alot of other people use gems to maintain our Rails application and dependencies, having to use the portage versions of these applications becomes troublesome...

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-29 09:55:42 UTC

Sorry, there's no way for portage to know about stuff installed by third-party tools, and there won't be any unless someone writes a g-cpan like tool for ruby gems stuff to install such stuff from ebuilds created by the tool. 

There's also not much of a reason to use gems for stuff that actually *is* in the official tree. If you really must, that's what package.provided is for (see man portage).

Thanks.