[gobolinux-users] you can remove 99% of the legacy file system

[John Griessen]

Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> On 10/27/07, John Griessen <john at foseda.com> wrote:
>> mpb wrote:
>>> On 10/23/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>>>

>>> So you can remove 99% of the legacy file system without that much work.
> 
> Just for reference, our choice to rely on legacy links rather than
> patching applications -- as trivial as the patches may be -- is due to
> our policy to build packages that are as vanilla as possible. 

So, this sounds like the gains possible for deleting some legacy file system
(that is or can be hidden) are small?  Is the gain for doing that just
the space empty dirs take up?

I'm planning to try gobolinux for distributing gEDA GPL software.
Such a plan needs to be vanilla, and the goal is to allow frequent updates,
and multiple versions of programs easily.

What works for Windows users?  I've heard putting a liveCD linux installation
inside a VMWare or VirtualBox Virtual Machine is workable, but a rootless
install on Windows might be something people would try...  It would require compiling
on the windows/cygwin machine though, to get .exe's created, right?

Is there a mingw way to have rootless on windows and use X-windows?
Would that involve
ordinary compilations or binaries?

Thanks,

John Griessen