[Bio-packaging] GEM_PATH

Pjotr Prins pjotr.public66 at thebird.nl
Tue Jul 7 13:56:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 08:25:42AM -0400, David Thompson wrote:
> >   GEM_PATH=/home/pjotrp/.guix-profile/lib/ruby/gems/c13v73jxm-ruby-2.1.6/
> >
> > It would guarantee isolation of gems. No more rvm/rubygem/etc hell.
> 
> This is what profiles and 'guix environment' are for.  You cannot
> install two versions of Ruby to a single profile without major
> collisions.  You should make profiles for each Ruby environment that you
> want to use.

That makes sense were it not that you can update gems in the wrong
profile... But yeah, there is something to be said for keeping the
profile path without hashes.

Pj.



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