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

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Sunday 26 Feb 2012 17:44:51 Jan Steffens wrote:
> 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).

Yep; you're absolutely right:

# sudo bash -c "echo \$HOME"

This returns "/root".

Paul