[GitHub] [arrow] ankane commented on issue #34457: [Ruby] Ruby library (silently) installs system libraries

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ankane commented on issue #34457:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34457#issuecomment-1457108765

   The concern is what @assignUser mentioned - I don't think a gem should change the global state of the host. With Homebrew (and possibly other package managers), installing a new formula can update dependencies and other libraries that use those dependencies. Also, when the gem is uninstalled, the system libraries will still be there.
   
   fwiw, the Python package takes the second approach (with binary distributions), which makes it much easier to install, but I think the first approach would be easiest to do for now.


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