# Rubygems: How to prevent gem from downloading & installing you own packages?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-how-to-prevent-gem-from-downloading-installing-you-own-packages/143732>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 22, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-how-to-prevent-gem-from-downloading-installing-you-own-packages/143732 "2008-07-22T10:15:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThoML](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@ThoML](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ThoML)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-how-to-prevent-gem-from-downloading-installing-you-own-packages/143732/1 "2008-07-22T10:15:47Z")

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Hi,

Does somebody know how I can prevent gem from installing a package  
from rubyforge when I have that package already installed from another  
non-gem source? Is there an option so that I can tell gem that it  
doesn’t need to bother with that dependency?

Thanks,  
Thomas.

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**Author:** ![ThoML](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@ThoML](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ThoML)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-how-to-prevent-gem-from-downloading-installing-you-own-packages/143732/2 "2008-07-22T23:53:56Z")

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On Jul 22, 2008, at 01:09 AM, ThoML wrote:

> Does somebody know how I can prevent gem from installing a package  
> from rubyforge when I have that package already installed from another  
> non-gem source? Is there an option so that I can tell gem that it  
> doesn’t need to bother with that dependency?

RubyGems only knows about gems.