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Subject: Re: Ruby gems in user land ($HOME)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:55:18 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote:
> > export GEM_PATH=3D/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz97-rub=
y-2.1.3/2.1.0                   =20
> > export GEM_HOME=3D$GEM_PATH                                          =
                                =20
> > export GEM_SPEC_CACHE=3D/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz=
97-ruby-2.1.3/specs             =20
>=20
> I suspect this won???t be very convenient.  ;-)  I???m not sure what ca=
n 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?

Pj.