Why are you making me install Perl?!
I innocently decided to upgrade my rubygems after reading Scott Boms’ blog
. I wanted the gems outdated fu. Now typically one can simply gem update --system
I use MacPorts, so I decided to do a quick sudo port upgrade rb-rubygems and it starts installing Perl. Huh? It’s rubygems!? That left me scratching my head…
Turns out that the portfile now has a dependency on autoconf which, in turn, depends on Perl. Wow. I hope it’s worth it. Last time I built rubygems by hand it wasn’t that tough…
So now I have perl 5.8.8. What can you do with that?[me: ducks]
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Yeah, this is happening here as well and I find it a bit irritating, too. At least I know why I’m installing perl to support gems now – thanks for that.