[Bug 199141] lang/ruby22: [PATCH][feature request] completely cleanup of gem functions

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Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to ksmakoto from comment #2)

Thanks for the testing. I've been testing too and found that it breaks a number
of ports. Some, such as devel/rubygem-glib2 and devel/rubygem-gio2 just need to
have:

require "rubygems"

added in certain places.

Others, such as databases/ruby-bdb break because they call rdoc and rdoc
requires gem. I can patch out the requirement of gem in rdoc, but I can't be
sure it will work properly. Upstream, ruby, rdoc and gem are all distributed
together and it makes sense for them to depend on each other. So I'm a bit
hesitant to go changing things too much.

This all makes me unsure that removing the gem bits from ruby is the right
thing to do. Can you explain in more detail the original issues that you
encountered? What is the trouble you have when gem is included with ruby? (Not
saying it's not real, just want to understand all sides of the issue before
making a decision which way to go.)

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