On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, Mathias Gug wrote: > 1. sudo apt-get install rubygems > 2. sudo gem install rails > 3. Modify the default PATH in the environment to include > /var/lib/gems/1.X/bin/ so that the rails command can be invoked from the > command line. > The upload aims at removing step number 3 from the process by symlinking > the gem binary from /var/lib/gems/1.X/bin/ into /usr/local/bin/.
-You certainly considered the following option, but I'm curious about the rationale for excluding it from the implementation.) Why don't you do 3 in place of the admin instead of using /usr/local? If touching /etc/environment is too fragile, could we add some new mechanism to handle default PATH changes (e.g. /etc/environment.d)? For example, libnssmdns mangles /etc/nsswitch.conf to add its entries: this sounds equally intrusive to me. -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu