[arch-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]

Jan Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 11:44:51 EST 2012


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
>>> If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby
>>
>> Are you sure?  Won't it install to your normal user's home, but with root
>> privileges?
>>
>> Paul
>
> I'm sure

Depends on what "sudo" does. gem will do the wrong thing if sudo
leaves HOME set to your user's home (either via env_keep or sudo -E).


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