Rails went (and is still going) through the same process. They realized they had a lot of code not being used (or being replaced by other gems) and just moved e

Rails went (and is still going) through the same process. They realized they had a lot of code not being used (or being replaced by other gems) and just moved everything away from the core. IMHO, with a lib sharing system such as rubygems, having a standard set of "external" libs in kind of unnecessary.