Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:22:55PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:10:15AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Would it be OK to add some RUBY paths?
>> >>
>> >> What additional Ruby search paths are needed?  We already have $GEM_PATH.
>> >
>> > $GEM_HOME
>> 
>> This one doesn't make sense because it specifies where gems are to be
>> installed.  Store items are immutable, so one cannot install gems into
>> them.
>
> We still provide the gem tool ;). If we set this value to something
> sensible (relative to $HOME) people can still use gems. The current
> default setting is not good because it does not provide isolation.

I don’t know Ruby, but this seems to be a variable that the *user* must
set, regardless of whether they use Guix or not, no?

Ludo’.

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