From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-05-10T06:41:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Who added this to my $PATH?

On May 9, 2009, at 01:13, Robert Dober wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>  
> wrote:
>> On May 7, 2009, at 1:08, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've just found the following line in my ~/.bashrc:
>>>
>>>  PATH=$PATH:~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin
>>>
>>> Now, that's vey beautiful. Instead of cluttering /usr/bin, everythig
>>> goes in ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin.
>>>
>>> But I wonder. Who added this line to my ~/.bashrc? I doubt it's me,
>>> because, IIRC, just today I discovered the fact the RubyGems puts  
>>> binaries
>>> there.
>>
>> It wasn't RubyGems, however RubyGems does warn you if you have
>> --user-install (current default) and don't have the user bin for in  
>> your
>> PATH.
>>
> Eric I did not think of RubyGems, but rather of the gem itself. Do you
> think this is possible?

It's possible, but it wouldn't happen at install time.