It's not the role of OpenBSD or any other distribution to provide those gems. I don't know anyone that rely on system packaging to get gems or eggs or CPAN mod

It's not the role of OpenBSD or any other distribution to provide those gems. I don't know anyone that rely on system packaging to get gems or eggs or CPAN module. And it would be silly because you can't run an arbitrary ruby/python app with and arbitrary version of gems. And IHMO Debian should take the same decision and stop packaging gems and eggs.