Re: guix environment

[Pjotr Prins]

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.