Installs 'ruby-keychain' dependency with 'gem install keyring' on Linux

[zinga666]

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Hi,

if I am not mistaken the ruby-keychain dependency is not supposed to be installed (because not necessary/sensible) on Linux, is it?

When I install keyring (version 0.4.1) on my Linux (elementary OS Juno - based on ubuntu 18.04) with gem install (within rvm) it installs the ruby-keychain dependency.

$ gem install -V keyring
[...]
Successfully installed ruby-keychain-0.3.2
[...]
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
[...]
*linux: installing gir_ffi-gnome_keyring...
[...]
Successfully installed keyring-0.4.1

$ gem list -l key

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

gir_ffi-gnome_keyring (0.0.10)
keyring (0.4.1)
ruby-keychain (0.3.2)

The gem dependency command also lists it:

$ gem dependency keyring
Gem keyring-0.4.1
  bundler (~> 1.3, development)
  mocha (>= 0, development)
  rake (>= 0, development)
  ruby-keychain (~> 0.3.2)
  slop (< 4.0)

As well as the website on rubygems.org: https://rubygems.org/gems/keyring/versions/0.4.1

$ ruby -e 'puts Gem::Platform.local.os'
linux

It's not a big deal because (at least after installing the libgnome-keyring-dev libgirepository1.0-dev packages) the Gem works fine (with the Gnome keyring) but the commit(s) in 0.4.1 sound like the dependencies should be handled for the different platforms separately.

[mvz]

This is because the gemspec uses a runtime check but only the result of that check as run on the maintainer's machine is included in the final gem. It seems the maintainer uses a Mac.