Amarok need Ruby??

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:21, Howard Coles jr wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:16 am, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:03, Howard Coles jr wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 5:07 am, Rashid N. Achilov wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 14:53, Marek Franke wrote:
> > > > > "Rashid N. Achilov" <achilov-rn at askd.ru> schrieb: Yesterday I had
> > > > > jave tried
> > > >
> > > > to setup amarok 1.4.4 instead of 1.3.8. I had very
> > > >
> > > > > surprised and _very_ frustrated, when I have seen, that amarok port
> > > > > tried to install Ruby!! Why? Why 1.3.8 didn't need it, but 1.4.4
> > > > > need? What is a
> > > > >
> > > > > AFAIK amarok need ruby because there are some plugins based on
> > > > > ruby. Marek
> > > >
> > > > Well, probably. How can I switch off these plugins? I did not need it
> > > > at 1.3.8, so I won't need it and 1.4.4
> > >
> > > I'm still  not sure what the big deal is.  What's the problem with
> > > installing python and ruby?  What problems would having them installed
> > > cause? I have them all on my laptop, and pc and I don't have any issues
> > > that I'm aware of that are caused by that.  Maybe if you share what
> > > problems it causes on your PC we'll have cause to investigate a
> > > hitherto unknown connection to another problem.
> >
> > No, they won't cause a problem as almost 90% of the desktop UNIX-like
> > systems I've seen have perl, python, etc. installed at the same time. The
> > issue that some seem to have is the added "bloat" to their install.
> > Really it's not that big of a deal since if I look at the information
> > provided by my package manager I see that ruby is give or take around
> > four MB in size. In a day when we've disk drives in the 250 to 300 GB
> > size range, four megabytes of used space is nothing to worry about.
>
> Well, I can see on a small hard drive, or low on memory type machine this
> might be an issue.  But, usually you're not going to be running Amarok
> unless you have enough space for mp3's or ogg files.

Even then this wouldn't be an issue on low RAM systems as the plugins aren't 
loaded all the time, thus don't need the scripting interpreters in RAM 
constantly. Small hard disks are where the issue really is, but I can safely 
say that anyone who is installing Amarok via source should have enough space 
to hold ruby along with the other interpreters.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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