From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: ruby-devel only requires ruby-libs and neither ruby-devel nor ruby-libs require ruby itself, but without ruby, ruby-libs and ruby-devel are useless. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ruby-devel-1.8.1-2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ruby-devel and ruby-libs and see that they don't require ruby itself. Additional info:
No, as the package description says, ruby-devel is to developt the extension library. and for that, ruby interpreter itself (which ruby package contains) isn't required for that. and though eruby requires ruby-libs, ruby interpreter itself isn't also required to get working for eruby. that's why ruby-devel and ruby-libs didn't requires ruby. so this is not a bug.