Again: amarok without ruby

Jeff Mitchell kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com
Thu Mar 8 13:44:11 UTC 2007


It's also used for Last.fm support, and may be used for more things in the 
future.  Why do you have such an aversion to having Ruby installed?

--Jeff

On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Rashid N. Achilov wrote:
> How do you do.
>
> I have mailed this problem to kde-general, but preferrable to discuss it
> here.
>
> Amarok 1.4.x needs ruby. I had have dig amarok sources and have discovered,
> that ruby really isn't so need, as think amarok's configure :-) It need:
>
> 1. for some scripts (lyrics_astraweb, lyrics_lyrc, score_default,
> score_impulsive)
> 2. for DAAP share music server. But you cat switch off it with
> --without-daap
>
> I think, ruby should be switchable. Really, I don't remember any time, when
> I had use 'scores'. I have created patch for FreeBSD port, but this patch
> is dirty. Really, parameter --with(out)-ruby is need to avoid install ruby
> scripts and libraries





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