Hallo, Winfried Ritsch hat gesagt: // Winfried Ritsch wrote:
What is if I want my own GEM tree and not the debian one, because GEM has a lot of compilation option, then it would be nice just not install Gem to not get mixed with the the debian.
That's actually, why I'm so in favour of having seperate packages in Debian (or generally). Debian packages are not only binary packages, they come as source packages, too, and using Debian's packaging tools makes it easy to build custom Debian packages of Gem locally as in:
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary $ dpkg -i ../*.deb
When doing packages for Debian, I think, the needs of people who compile their own stuff using Debian's tools should be taken into account as well. Everyone is a maintainer, the line to "pure users" is blurred or non-existant here.
Ciao