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Split default gems into separate directory structure

Added by vo.x (Vit Ondruch) almost 6 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:86875]
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On Fedora, we are using operating_system.rb 1, 2 to setup various RubyGems paths. Unfortunately, if we change Gem.default_dir (which we want to point into user home directory on Fedora), then this also changes location for default gems (!!), which are later not discovered by RubyGems 3. It was not been a big deal for use, since we used to unbundle the gems shipped in Ruby, but with the gemification of StdLib, unbundlig becomes unsustainable (it is more work, but mainly it is incompatible change).

To fix this issue, I modified the operating_system.rb to behave similarly to what Arch does 4, i.e. we started to inject "--user-install" option 1. Unfortunately, this revealed the RubyGems are not respecting their own interfaces and I had to fix at least one of them along the way to make it work 6. Apparently, using the "--user-install" option itself has some drawbacks and what is worse, it is not respected by Bundler, which was recently pointed out 5.

When I was fixing RubyGems 6, I just realized how the default gems are hacked up and how much is the original RubyGems configurability broken by this. This leads me to the proposal: Could we please install default gems into different directory then the other, user installed, gems? Since RubyGems were always designed to support various gem directory structures, the directory structure for default gems would become just other directory directory structure and would not collide with overrides in operating_system.rb, letting the distributions to override what was always designed to be overridable.

BTW I believe that one nice side effect of this change would be simplification of RubyGems code base. The default gems would live in "default_gems" directory, their .gemspec files could be in standard "default_gems/specifications" directory and we could forget about "default_gems/specifications/defaults", etc.

BTW2 I could fill this against RubyGems, but the default gems are Ruby stuff IMO, so I think this is appropriate tracker.


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #19972: Install default/bundled gems into dedicated directoriesAssignedhsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)Actions
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