How to tell what users Ruby

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Sep 30 06:36:12 UTC 2019


On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:37:52 -0600, @lbutlr wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2019, at 8:33 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> > I've just installed portmaster for testing - you're right, it does not
> > show up as depending on ruby; vim, however, does:
> > 
> > 	# pkg info -r ruby
> > 	ruby-2.5.5_2,1:
> > 	        vim-8.1.1439
> 
> Depends on how you built vim, I suppose. Ruby is not a dependency on my systems.

Surely possible. I installed it via pkg, so the default options
should have been applied by FreeBSD's automatic build system.



> > Interesting thing: portmaster's Makefile does not mention ruby at all.
> > So I tried something: I removed ruby and vim and portmaster, then
> > installed portmaster again - and no ruby. So my guess is: portmaster
> > does no longer depend on ruby.
> 
> I don’t think postmaster ever depended on ruby?

I'm not sure, but I _think_ that it actually depended on it
in the past... of course that's nothing to be entirely sure
of, as I've been a portupgrade person before entirely switching
to pkg / poudriere (and only occassional "make install"). ;-)






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