Issue #20714 has been updated by deivid (David RodrÃguez). For what it's worth, I did end up considering my PR a strict improvement over what we have now, but I just closed it because it was ignored for a long time. Hopefully we'll have a proper solution in the future. ---------------------------------------- Bug #20714: Handle optional dependencies in `bundled_gems.rb` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20714#change-113818 * Author: Earlopain (Earlopain _) * Status: Assigned * Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) * ruby -v: 3.3.5 * Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- I've encountered a few places around bundled gems where the library doesn't care if the gem is available, but will still provide some functionallity if it is. The way to accomplish that right now seems to be by setting `$VERBOSE = nil` and resetting it later again to not bother the user with the warning about the gem. However, this has the effect of silencing the warning about other gems as well, that may not be prepared about the bundling. From `ruby/reline` for example: https://github.com/ruby/reline/blob/c90f08f7e308d2f1cdd7cfaf9939fe45ce546fd2... Or the `logging` gem: https://github.com/TwP/logging/blob/df41715364f7eb8c65098cd3c3316677ef1f3784... I propose to simply delay the warning to the next require. GitHub PR at https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/11545 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/