From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T22:52:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5

On Nov 21, 2007 10:12 AM, Sylvain Joyeux
<sylvain.joyeux@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:09:18AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> >> Now I realize the paticular oddities of this are not necessarily
> >> RubyGems problems.  I was using the Ubuntu patched version, but I've
> >> looked at that patch and all it did was hardcode the GEM_HOME
> >> environment variable to be /var/lib/rubygems.
> >
> > Yes, it is regrettable that Debian didn't instead add GEM_HOME to
> > /etc/profile (or equivalent).  In that case (other than the /usr/lib vs
> > /usr/local/lib problem) upgrading RubyGems would Just Work.
> Maybe because they would have to do that for every conceivable shell
> lying around ? It does not seem practicle to me. In my opinion, the
> right solution would have been to make RubyGem read a global
> configuration file in /etc which defines sensible GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH
> values. Relying on environment variables is not doable system-wide.
>

I also agree with this, it would be nice if RubyGems was reading a
system-wide configuration file as well as environment variables.

Maybe the 1.9 integration will provide a way to set default values for
these variables at build time.

Laurent