I agree, we need to make a decision... A poll maybe? There seems to be a lot of good ideas, and nobody is really disagreeing on them.
I like Henry's idea of /usr/local and ipkg.
We should have a preinstall script check for and create the following.
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/usr/local (real directory)
/usr/local/lib -> /media/*/_local/lib
/usr/local/bin -> /media/*/_local/bin
/usr/local/etc -> /media/*/_local/etc
/usr/local/var -> /media/*/_local/var
/usr/local/share -> /media/*/_local/share
/usr/local/include -> /media/*/_local/include
/usr/local/programs -> /media/*/Programs
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After the program is installed /usr/local/programs should contain a folder with a launcher script, manifest, and icon.
For removing an application, we can create a simple script that will execute ipkg remove applicationame. We can put this script along with a manifest and icon in /usr/local/programs/Uninstall. From there, the user can simply navigate to that folder if they want to uninstall an appliation. They can select it, have a confirmation box pop up that says "Are you sure you want to remove $program?" that they will have to select, and the ipkg command will run.
Does anyone have any problems or disagreements with this? I think it solves almost every issue we would run into. The only problem I see is if a user swaps around memory cards of the same type.... but in that case, they should know that they have to reinstall all the applications.
Also, I agree that we should rename ipkg files to .iliad. This will avoid confusion and allow us to eventually put an entry in er_registry.txt.