Package: rubygems Version: 1.8.24-1ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist The support for Debian ruby packages to be available as gems is much appreciated, but currently users have to use --user-install to install gems in their home directory, and uninstalling doesn't work (see bug #595168).
Please could "gem install" when run by non-root users install in the user's home directory? I'm no expert on how this is best achieved, but there seem to be at least three sensible options: 1. Change the order of gem paths so that the home directory comes first. This also seems sensible because surely the user's own gems should override system-installed gems. 2. Change the default arguments of "gem install" to include "--user-install". 3. Change the default installation directory (as reported by "gem env") to the user's home directory. I'm sorry, I couldn't find any official Debian ruby policy to consult before filing this bug; I also searched the debian-ruby archives, but found only a six-year-old discussion that appears to pre-date the integration of rubygems into Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rubygems depends on: ii ca-certificates 20120623 ii ruby1.8 1.8.7.358-4ubuntu0.1 Versions of packages rubygems recommends: ii build-essential 11.5ubuntu3 ii ruby1.8-dev 1.8.7.358-4ubuntu0.1 rubygems suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org