Re: [MiNT] Where should a user put GEM apps

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

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> > - You would not be able to run them from /usr/bin (rsc-files, etc.)
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> Are you sure when starting from symlink in /usr/bin, the actual path (where
> rsc is looking for) isn't the target, i.e. /c/tools/app folder? I'd say it
> works perfectly.

Try it.

> > - The shell would have to search longer for any console-app
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> Because of 10-20 files (links) more? Can't believe that.

If it would be only 1 it's still garbage.

> > - When de-installing you might have the dead links in /usr/bin
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> ? Every package manager deletes also created symlinks.

Don't want to rely on that, and I rarely use package-managers.

> > - You don't know in advance if you start a GEM- or a console-app
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> And? How many times you wanted to start Amarok in terminal in Linux?

Start what? Imagine a user does not know what a file is for, and starts
it to see the usage-message, and suddenly a whole bunch of windows pop up, and the used gets confused.

> > Surely there are more.
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> I don't say we must do that in my way but I don't see any particular
> disadvantage either.

I do.


-Helmut