On 10/19/07, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:12 , Trans wrote: > > > So when did /var/lib become the place to store gems? Whomever is > > organizing Debian/Ubuntu's filesystem is out of their minds. Does it > > really make sense to have three locations for Ruby libraries? We have > > /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/local/site_ruby and now /var/lib/gems. Craziness. > > > > Well, despite *their* schizophrenia, how does RubyGems know where the > > gems are stored? > > Gem.path
I see. I was wondering how that was defined actually, but knowing the name of the method I was able to dig it up. I'm surprised to see that it is hard coded. The GoboLinux people would like to have a talk with you ;) Seriously, though, that's not a "nice" way to do it. rbconfig really needs to be used in setting this. Personally, I would expect the gems dir to be right next to the sitedir, where ever it may be -- just because RubyGems manages the installation rather than say setup.rb, doesn't make it somehow fundamentally different. At least that's my HO. Thanks & HTH, T. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
