[Nix-dev] "nix-env -i ruby" installs bundler, not ruby

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 08:48:36 CET 2015


On 14 March 2015 at 13:45, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> Just use -iA, such naming issues are precisely why just -i is not sane
> and that is on top of how inefficient it is.

I disagree that installing by name is not "sane". At least until nix
deprecates "install by pkgname" and starts suggesting "install by
attrname".

Currently, nix _itself_ suggests to the user that ruby is installed
with "nix-env -i ruby". So this is definitely a bug in ruby/bundler
packaging, as far as I'm concerned.

- Bjørn


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