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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Adam's proposal totally fails at what I think is a fundamental detail of the iLiad: there will be more upgrades.
Your root filesystem will be replaced, erased back to factory defaults, ipkg databases reset, symbolic links removed... What state will the applications on the memory cards be in then? When you click on them after iDS gets done with your iLiad what will happen? How will your Average Joe reset the applications back to a functional state? Will they get to keep all their laboriously entered options/configurations or will everything get set back to default?
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A home directory will be created on the memory card, preferences stored there, and configured as such in the ipkg.
Most people realize that once they install a new operating system that they have to reinstall all their programs. Why would they not assume as such when they upgrade the os on the iLiad? Another ipkg install would restore the links and allow the program to work once again. Since preferences were defined in ipkg, they will not be overwritten.