Okay, this strikes me. On graffiti which defaces advertising:

Advertising is designed to manipulate people, whereas graffiti is essentially a pure mode of self-expression. Advertising is encouraged or courted by the authorities. Graffiti is illegal. And here is the difference that makes sense of all the others: money. All the legitimacy of advertising derives from the money that is paid to post it and the revenue it generates.

Don’t we fight claims which are ultimately rooted in the same gag reflex?? That we’re a public domain pedestrian’s language??

And, in the context of last week’s poll on Ruby-Talk, wherein we discovered how many are out there using Ruby full-time, I wonder: are you worried about what cash could to do Ruby?

Merged Ruby packages of Debian [Version: 1.8.2-3] has come to the testing release after some discussions [1]. Many Ruby libraries are now included in libruby1.8, which ruby1.8 depends on. So you can install most Ruby environment (the interpreter and the most libraries) by sudo apt-get install ruby1.8. Most users will be happy with this single command!

It makes it easier to install Ruby in Debian, however, the upstream—original, standard—Ruby are still separated into a few packages because of maintenance and so forth. If you need Tcl/Tk you need to install libtcltk-ruby1.8; if you need openssl you have to install libopenssl-ruby1.8 one by one. You can see the other packages here.

¹ A new package like ruby1.8-bundle that contains all Ruby environment seems to be planned but is not available yet.