You clearly don't understand package management. Package dependencies is actually a pretty complicated problem. Dependency solving is an NP-complete tree sear

You clearly don't understand package management. Package dependencies is actually a pretty complicated problem. Dependency solving is an NP-complete tree searching problem. Lots of fun. Anyway, the new guys in rails-core (i.e. the merb-core team) have been working on this and they do have a preliminary solution to the problem. This is something that wycats (dev lead of merb-core) has been complaining about for a while now.