Re: Foreign packages (formerly Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ruby-nokogiri)

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:50:59PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> Maybe Ruby is easier though. Simply replace the foo in require 'foo'
> with the first input where
> /gnu/store/.../lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/.../lib/foo.rb is a file, I
> think. Presumably the reality will be more complex, but does this
> sound bad Pjotr?

I can't oversee what it means to Guix. Traversing all the files would
take some logic...

But I don't think it is necessary. If the gem load path is correct
there should be no real issues.

Main problem is the shared profile between rubies and gems. See my
previous E-mail in this thread.

Pj.