> For exmaple I try hard to avoid using any non-standard libs with Ruby scripts so I can just use the system ruby, and don't have to ship a Gemfile and/or insta

> For exmaple I try hard to avoid using any non-standard libs with Ruby scripts so I can just use the system ruby, and don't have to ship a Gemfile and/or install any gems The ruby "story" for Gemfile dependencies for single-file scripts have gotten a BIT better since possibly last time you looked at it. It will of course necessarily involve installing gems still though. Ideally for your use case, I feel like you'd want to install them to a local (not system-default) location ... which is ordinarily possible with bundler, but oddly the maintainers seem to think it's an anti-use-case for inline bundler? https://github.com/rubygems/bundler/issues/7131 https://github.com/rubygems/bundler/issues/7131. I dunno. Anyway, I put this here not to convince you, your decision is reasonable, but just other info for other readers.