From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix environment
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:39:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150616143906.GA26344@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj3zx5g4.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:23:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > On Debian it is
> >
> > - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.9.1
> >
> > (so, by default, you need sudo to run gem)
> >
> > My proposal is to have it user based and isolated, e.g.,
> >
> > - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: $HOME/.gem/c13v73jxmj2nir2xjqaz5259zywsa9zi-ruby-2.1.6/2.1.0
>
> I suppose this would require patching Ruby, but why not.
>
> Another option would be to do like Debian, which is presumably what
> upstream intended, and which boils down to configuring Ruby with
> --localstatedir=/var or similar.
I prefer defaulting to $HOME. It is easier to teach a sysadmin
different then an end-user ;)
This way gems will work out-of-the-box.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 6:55 guix environment Pjotr Prins
2015-06-15 7:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-15 13:10 ` Thompson, David
2015-06-15 19:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-06-15 19:22 ` Thompson, David
2015-06-16 5:52 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-06-16 7:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-16 10:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-06-16 11:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-16 14:39 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-06-15 13:27 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-06-15 20:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-16 5:06 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-20 17:21 Federico Beffa
2015-01-20 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-20 21:56 ` David Thompson
2015-01-29 23:00 ` David Thompson
2015-02-03 20:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-03 21:15 ` David Thompson
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