Somewhere between the following two commits, make install adds additional empty folders that are created in lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems, most are default gems.
2019-08-23 9ffb0548bf good
2019-08-23 3b55394b07 bad
Looking at the commit, the addition of the empty folders appears to be intentional, to result in the same behavior as gem install --default. Can you explain what problems this causes?
Sorry, but code that creates thirty empty folders is just wrong, regardless of whether it creates 'problems'...
I disagree that a change that creates thirty empty folders is wrong a priori. This change appears to be deliberate in order to ensure consistency. Assigning to @hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) to decide whether this should be closed.