@javispedro

I agree with you in a very general way: you can make the changes you want yourself. However, as titan has pointed out, there are some standards in generally agreed Linux file system structure that could be improved.

I'm assuming you are only talking about leaving MyDocs as a fixed FAT32 partition that gets exported. I agree that letting the user choose whatever he or she wants is important.

However, if we consider the whole partition scheme, N900 seems to be broken by design: sell a 32GB device which very rapidly fills up a 256MB partition (which is already half full) and turns into a brick.

There must be a reason for having this partition scheme in place, but I'm eager to see something better that could be done to fix it. One idea is to use AUFS or other stackable file system mechanism.

If you follow the optifying threads you will see that even having a tool to help change file locations to /opt is not a complete solution. There are dependencies and lots of other things that make porting a standard Linux package to the N900 a little more difficult.

If we could just grab a standard debian package and install it (or at most recompile it) to N900, without the extra care needed to put files in different places, in no time we would have a wealth of available applications for the N900. With additional time and effort, those applications could be adjusted to the Hildon environment, but at least it would be faster to have them. I know there is easydebian but I'm talking about a speed up in porting applications to the N900 with minimum effort.

Now a question: do you or anybody knows how Nokia is planning to deploy fixes to the base Maemo 5 system? Is it going to be updated deb packages or will we have to reflash the devices?