On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:12 pm, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> [...] For example, can gems support these use cases?
>
> - I want to try out a gem on a system where I don't have root. [...]

Yes.

> - I want to have more than one local gem repository [...]

Yes.

> - I want to install a gem from a gemfile I already have [...]

Yes.

> - I want to "unpack" a gem into a directory structure that can be
> deployed to another machine, without having to run "gem" on the
> remote machine

Yes. 

> - same as the previous one, but I also want to "unpack" the gem into
> a different directory root [...]

Yes.

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