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

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

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> > Not a good solution - you'll have the GEM-apps and console-apps together in
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> And? What's wrong about that? You'll have only symlinks to GEM apps there.
> As I said, it works in Linux and I don't think it causes any problems.

- You would not be able to run them from /usr/bin (rsc-files, etc.)

- The shell would have to search longer for any console-app

- When de-installing you might have the dead links in /usr/bin

- You don't know in advance if you start a GEM- or a console-app

Surely there are more.


-Helmut