Re: Simplifying package installation.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> However just a tarball is not AS great, as it doesn't register with any
> "application database", for better package managment.

We could make the installation process install the .keys, .mime,
.gnorba files in the user directory.

Another approach is to have a 4777 directory in the system where
people can install applications.

> The user package would add it's icon to the user menu ("Favorites" nowdays)
> and maybe a link to the ~/bin/ so that the user can run it from command line

this we can do trivially.

miguel