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

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:41 +0000, Peter Slegg wrote:
>
>> Linux has a single big ext2/3/4 partition while most of our systems
>> don't.
>>
>> I don't like the system of dumping everything in one folder and playing
>> find the needle.
>
> I could not agree more. My Milan has a boot-partition and a
> F32-partition called "Apps". Every app I use has one folder on that
> drive. The unix-stuff is located on a big ext2-partition and I don't
> have a clue about how it works. I can find and edit stuff in /etc,
> everything else I leave alone and hope that rpm knows it's stuff.
>
> Jo Even
>
the original questions was regarding repo packages

the above situation would be OK if every one had /c/apps which is not
the case. Even the Pack3D uses D: for its apps

there is no reason why /opt/GEM (or current /usr/GEM) could not be
mapped to C:\APPS, and will probably be useful for quite a few users

Unfortunately I do not have one apps folder, so I dont mind if
packages are installed to a posix tree, as long as (for GEM apps) the
are all in one place, therefore easy to find

note too the posibility of /opt/GEM/HYP and /opt/GEM/RSC etc all nice
short paths where multiple search path are used/needed/useful

Paul