[Rubygems-developers] gem install and gem uninstall missing --install-dir

[Eric Hodel]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 07:38, Todd Fisher wrote:

> gem install has the --install-dir flag, but uninstall does not.   
> This means if I wanted to create a gem repository in a non-standard  
> directory such as /opt/gems  I can not uninstall gems from that  
> alternate folder.
>
> Trying to set the GEM_HOME to an empty gem folder causes the gem  
> command to fail with this stack trace.

Can you file bugs in the tracker for each of these?

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