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Somebody replied to a post of mine in a thread like this years ago stating that he was converting every Ruby gem in his dependencies into a .deb and he was inst
by pmontra 5y ago
Somebody replied to a post of mine in a thread like this years ago stating that he was converting every Ruby gem in his dependencies into a .deb and he was installing them with apt. That was the right way to do and everybody else is doing it wrong. I don't remember if I replied but the sheer amount of work is astounding.
- jbboehr 5y agoI did this once. It was a terrible idea. Nix solves the same problem of wanting better control of system-level dependencies but without all the manual packaging.