Misc #15610
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Could bundler & rubygems be shipped in site_ruby?
Description
Currently bundler & rubygems are shipped together with the rest of the standard library (in RbConfig::CONFIG["rubylibdir"]). The fact that they share their folder with the rest of the standard library has caused some issues that wouldn't have happened if they were isolated. For example, https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15469 or https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/2188.
Also, when you run gem update --system, rubygems installs a copy of itself and bundler in site_ruby, so you currently end up with two copies of different versions of bundler and rubygems in different folders of the $LOAD_PATH.
@hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) has fixed the above issues with a patch to bundler in https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/6941, but I still wonder whether it could be cleaner to ship them in site_ruby directly, so that gem update --system overwrites them and you always have a single default copy of both rubygems and bundler.
Maybe this wouldn't be a good usage of site_ruby, and it's better to keep things as they are, but I figured I could ask ruby-core about it.
Thanks for what you do!
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