On 08/14/2014 04:36 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > One school of thought is the NextSTEP style folders [0]. So you would > have functionally named folders /System, /User, /Programs, /Games, > etc.
This is actually how it already works. FDNPKG uses 'categories' of software, and puts software there at install time. There is not much categories, only four: DEVEL DRIVERS GAMES PROGS I described it (lightly) here: http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package The location where software of each category will be installed is configurable via the FDNPKG configuration file, so you can decide for example to put devel stuff into C:\DEVEL\, and games into D:\MYSTUFF\GAMES\. I decided on such implementation after asking around for opinions on this list back in 2012 (see the thread "FreeDOS packaging rules / paths"). But the question now is different (I took the liberty to change the subject of this message accordingly): where would you put applications that need to be reachable from %PATH% ? My idea would be to install them like any other applications - somewhere in one of the categories mentioned above, but adding a batch 'link' to them into a special folder, let's say in %FREEDOS%\LINKS. But it's not necessarily a brilliant idea either, so I'm open (as usual) to any suggestions. Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
