Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> When I came across rpm - the Redhat Package Manager - I had the strong
> feeling that this program could improve the situation.  

Bernd Herbert (spelling?) has made something similar for his
MiNT '98 package.

> My idea was to start some sort of "made by internet" MiNT distribution.
> This MBI distribution could make the core part of other distributions,

That starts to sound like my NMD... ;-)

> This distribution should have a standardized directory structure so that
> we have a common base to work on.  

How does FHS sound like?

To answer Mario's reply, yes, I have (previously) recompiled MiNTOS 
and the libs to use FHS.  GNU utils don't need recompiling and most
(but not all) of MiNTnet is already usable within an FHS structure.

> From other distributor's point of view it should be possible to 
> simply ftp the MBI archive, burn it on CD and spread it -

That's my goal for NMD as well.

> So who could maintain such a site?  I have several ideas -

> Finally we have Fishpool who already maintain this list but also 
> for mere enthusiasm (at least I think that they don't benefit from
> MiNT in a commercial sense).  

Fishpool runs mainly on Linux and IRIX hardware, true.

I have already talked with Teemu and Kris about this, a while
back.  You might recall I even reported it was possible to host 
both http://mint.atari.org and ftp://mint.atari.org there.

I might even have located the hardware to dedicate for that.

The question remains, can there be a concensus?

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Martin-Eric Racine        http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/M-E/
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