From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ruby gems in user land ($HOME)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:27:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw8hzdek.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027135518.GB24590@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:55:18 +0100")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > export GEM_PATH=/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz97-ruby-2.1.3/2.1.0
>> > export GEM_HOME=$GEM_PATH
>> > export GEM_SPEC_CACHE=/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz97-ruby-2.1.3/specs
>>
>> I suspect this won???t be very convenient. ;-) I???m not sure what can be
>> done to help.
>
> Patching ruby in a few places would be enough. Alternatively have a
> wrapper script that sets these default values, unless they already are
> defined. Would you accept such patches?
In general, I think it’s better to avoid diverging from upstream, so I’d
rather not patch Ruby itself.
As for a wrapper, I don’t know, but it doesn’t sound very nice either.
But really, the best thing to work on would be Gems as Guix packages.
:-)
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 6:38 Ruby gems in user land ($HOME) Pjotr Prins
2014-10-27 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-27 13:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2014-10-27 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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