Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

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

Hi Guido!

> > Would the FHS specification which Martin Eric Racine always talks about be
> > appropriate? I heard that he had already adapted some basic tools to
> > support that.
> 
> There are several degrees of compatibility to FHS.  I think they are named
> "compliant", "compatible" and "conforming".  

I don't recall seeing those at all. in fact, see below.

> For MiNT we have no chance to be fully FHS compliant.  We need for
> example the non-FHS directories /usr/multitos (/usr/mint) and -

Adding extra folders (for historical or distribution-specific basis)
is still OK as far as FHS goals are concerned, since it's only about
a minimal compliance level in regards to where common system binaries
are located and how the main folder hierarchies are named.
 
> annoying enough - all partitions appear as /<drive_letter> in the 
> root filesystem.  Apart from that the FHS is ok for us.

Well, maybe someone will figure out a way to hide those, but
still allow calling drives as /<letter>.

PS: _WITHOUT_ making the whole / chmod'able, please.  Just removing
    the routine that fetches the available drives and displays them
    in / should be enough.

> Another problem is the GEM stuff.  FHS is totally biased against X11.  
> My proposal:  We take the X11 directory structure and replace all
> occurencies of "X11" by "GEM":

Or, if the goal is simply to place GEM applications on the hierarchy,
/opt/<package>, /usr/opt/<package> or /usr/local/opt/<package> works
well, to install CAB or other apps capable of accessing Minix/ext2:

/opt/geminit
/usr/opt/thing  <- when used with Geminit, otherwise in /usr/local/opt
/usr/local/opt/cab
/usr/local/opt/aftp

...and so on.
 
> Maybe we can also think of a better location for RSC files than the
> current directory.  What about this:

Ouch!  Please _don't_ start spreading the RSC's and configs around!
GEM apps expect everything within the application's directory, and
it really is more convenient to manage that way, for the user.

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