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

[David Gálvez <dgalvez75@gmail.com>]

2011/1/10 Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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> I totally agree, too.
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> Let's RPM handle UNIX-cr*p as far as applications work well from the command
> line.
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> For GEM apps, we have been accustomed to unzip anywhere and go, it would be
> nice if it could continue like that.
>

It looks like the discussion is about forcing everybody to put their
GEM applications in the UNIX directory tree. :-)
People can place their software wherever they want with the zip
packets. But it would be a nice POSSIBILITY to have also GEM
application as installable packages, and in sci-fiction future an
application-manager could connect a server to see if there are new
versions download and install them, but as a CHOICE, you can still
download the zip files and put them anywhere you want.

For example:

http://sparemint.org/sparemint/html/packages/freemint-gem.html

This packet is installed by EasyMiNT. It seems that the standard is
/opt but I wasn't sure as there is /usr/GEM also in the directory
tree. As Christos I only wanted to know if there is a standard, and if
not may be to choose one.


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