Marc Weber wrote: > Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Fri Jan 21 15:55:49 +0100 > 2011: >> >> For example, we can let rubygems to automatically add >> >> NIX_PROFILES/gemPath to GEM_PATH. >> > Yes. However it should be done on a "per application basis" by default. >> > I personally will load gems into PATH when needed. This way no >> > collisions will happen. >> What collisions may happen with rubygems? It seems that they have rather >> nice builtin collision resolution. > > If you install something into profiles and want to use other patched > libraries when developing. The solution is simple: "Don't intsall the > normal way into your profiles". > > Its ok. In the usual case it does what the user expects. So go for it. > > I'll personally create envs and load them as needed. > > How do you think about overlays? I think that we need something like exherbo's repository abstraction. And 'gem' may be one of 'sync types'. I have no detailed proposal atm.
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