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 12:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150616100446.GA25031@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhfkytfx.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:59:46AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> > $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?
The current default points inside the Guix store. Which is (and should
be) read-only
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /gnu/store/c13v73jxmj2nir2xjqaz5259zywsa9zi-ruby-2.1.6/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0
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
Which is similar to what rvm does.
The latter is what a user normally will set (or something similar).
Question is whether it belongs with the Guix package or not. The
current default makes no sense, unless you want to prevent a user from
installing modules and confuse him ;).
Think my solution similar to what we do with emacs. Emacs allows for
installation of modules in $HOME.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ 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 [this message]
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)
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2019-06-01 16:53 H.Nasajpour<PantherX>
2019-06-01 18:42 ` Christopher Baines
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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