What changed? (gem command missing in 1.9)

[Eitan Adler]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 11/11/11 21:37, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:32:30 -0500
>> Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
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>>> On 11/11/11 21:18, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>>>> Yes, we can actually do that.  We're discussing the possibility of making
>>>> lang/ruby19 to depend on ruby-gems and rake, thus having ruby19 installation
>>>> automatically install rake and gem as well.  But nobody did that yet.
>>>>
>>>> I agree tought that should have been done at the moment the gem binary
>>>> was dropped from ruby19, but I think we just forgot about this at the
>>>> end.
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>>> Does the attached simple patch (untested) cover it or is more needed?
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>> I believe it might do.  I'm not sure though you can run depend on something
>> that build depends on you, so it needs testing.
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> Nevermind, that build loops trying to build ruby-gems. I'll look at it
> some more.

Perhaps a meta-port that has RUN_DEPENDS on both the gem and ruby
might be of use here?

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Eitan Adler