IMO, it'd also be nicer if package manager maintainers worked harder to not break the default assumptions of Ruby developers. All of the RubyGems developers ar

IMO, it'd also be nicer if package manager maintainers worked harder to not break the default assumptions of Ruby developers. All of the RubyGems developers are volunteers—as are most (if not all) of the various package manager maintainers. The way that Debian broke Ruby in the past (I don't know if it still does, but I have heard reports that it's better)…was unconscionable. (This mostly because Debian tried to treat RubyGems like C-based libraries, which are hard to have multiple usable versions of; RubyGems was based on the idea that you might need multiple usable versions of a package around.)