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Message: [QUOTE="Eivind Eklund, post: 4444239"] I'm with FreeBSD. Just as background: We've had occasionally had fairly bad experiences with pulling externally maintained software into a base system. The problem is that this trigger a conflict between updating and stability, and has led to very outdated versions being in the base (e.g, perl4 stuck around for many years after its due date; at the moment, we have perl 5.6.1 in the base system for our 4.x branch, even though the current version is 5.8.4 - and 5.8 has been the relevant version for about two years.) I'm not sure what forces are involved for Ruby just here, but just wanted to warn that "pull it into the base system to make it available everywhere" comes with non-obvious drawbacks. The includsion of Perl in the FreeBSD base system created a ton of problems for people using perl on FreeBSD, for instance. Eivind. [/QUOTE]