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As far as glacial release cycles are concerned, use Ubuntu, not Debian. Problem solved. And about packages getting rearranged, yeah, I like FreeBSD's ports bet
by compay 17y ago
As far as glacial release cycles are concerned, use Ubuntu, not Debian. Problem solved.
And about packages getting rearranged, yeah, I like FreeBSD's ports better too, but you really should be using apt-get only to install rubygems and then use gem rather than apt to install the gems.
- blasdel 17y agoUsing Ubuntu doesn't always, as Canonical just reuses Debian's crap for a ton of stuff, and if they're nearing a 'release' even everything in testing freezes for fucking forever. It's much worse with Haskell than any other language I know of -- last I checked there were two broken+old builds of ghc with different names and mutually-exclusive sets of packages that depended on them. On top of that the version of cabal (Haskell's packaging tool) in the repository was so far out of date that you couldn't use it to build anything remotely recent (including useful versions of itself), nor could you use it with anything in Hackage (the central repo).
- sho 17y agoAmen to that. And since we're on a Ruby thread, Ubuntu's Ruby 1.9 is 1.9.0 which is (1) buggy (2) broken (3) more than a year old. It is fucking ridiculous, no-one with any sense is using that. This version manager is actually better than apt-get for managing your Ruby installs. Go figure.