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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix environment
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:59:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhfkytfx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150616055247.GA23591@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:52:47 +0200")

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:22:55PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:10:15AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Would it be OK to add some RUBY paths?
>> >>
>> >> What additional Ruby search paths are needed?  We already have $GEM_PATH.
>> >
>> > $GEM_HOME
>> 
>> This one doesn't make sense because it specifies where gems are to be
>> installed.  Store items are immutable, so one cannot install gems into
>> them.
>
> We still provide the gem tool ;). If we set this value to something
> sensible (relative to $HOME) people can still use gems. The current
> default setting is not good because it does not provide isolation.

I don’t know Ruby, but this seems to be a variable that the *user* must
set, regardless of whether they use Guix or not, no?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-16  7:59 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 [this message]
2015-06-16 10:04           ` Pjotr Prins
2015-06-16 11:23             ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-16 14:39               ` Pjotr Prins
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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