Great point, Pelle, Thanks. I think that's exactly the problem, though.. Yes, I'm 100% that all of these problems can, and probably will, be fixed. But even o

Great point, Pelle, Thanks. I think that's exactly the problem, though.. Yes, I'm 100% that all of these problems can, and probably will, be fixed. But even once they are, there will be two methods for doing everything, and that makes things more complex than they need to be. It's one of the disadvantages of such a relatively unpredictable environment- Every tool has has to be able to work across a variety of platforms, which means that every tool has to assume the worst case. ;( The Ruby devs can't assume packages are sane everywhere- Redhat packages, for instance, have been a world of hurt for years.. OS X and Windows don't even HAVE native packaging systems. I entirely understand why it is the way that it is.. But I look forward to it getting better. As another poster pointed out, in newer releases of Ubuntu, they DO package up the gems as individual .deb packages. Essentially, the Ubuntu devs bypassed the gem manager, just as the gem manager itself bypassed Ubuntu.