Installing along Homebrew

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> > Ideally it would check if the os already provides 1.9 and use that
>> > one if it does, else depend on whatever ruby is already installed
>> > by MP.
>>
>> Isn't that the type of non-reproduceable build that MacPorts tries to avoid?
>
> No. Either the OS has 1.9, then it's used (and never MacPorts' copy), or it
> doesn't, then MacPorts' copy is always used. So the port does build
> differently on different OS releases, but still doesn't depend on anything
> installed or configured by the user. We would certainly want to avoid using
> MacPorts ruby if it's there and system ruby if it isn't.

Gotcha, I missed that the check would be based on the OS and not just
the presence of Ruby.

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