Vít Ondruch wrote, at 03/18/2011 09:59 PM +9:00:

Hello

I am wondering why we are keeping the original gem file in cache folder of rubygems? I see that they might come handy only in one scenario, calling "gem unpack foo" when working offline. Is anybody using this scenario? Is there any other reason?

Vit

Currently I have no idea other than "because '$ gem install' installs such cached gem". We anyway keep such gems in srpms (on koji, for example) and unless there is some reason like "$ gem bar won't work without cached gem", I don't oppose to removing cached gems if someone raises such proposal (smaller size is better if possible). - And I think gem unpack foo can simply be replaced by downloading srpm.

Regards, Mamoru