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

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

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> > Sometime ago I asked myself also about this.
> > If I want to make a rpm package of a GEM application, where should the
> > application be installed inside the sparemint directory tree?
> > I also saw that the people that did this before have used /opt,  ej: toswin
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> Yeah, it's a dilemma. As Linux doesn't make a difference for graphical and
> console apps (you can find both kinds in /usr/bin), maybe we could adopt it

Not a good solution - you'll have the GEM-apps and console-apps together in
one directory.

I'd say use /programs/<app-root> and link to launchpath.

Also some GEM-apps want to run from FAT, so there will never be a unique method.

-Helmut