[openbeos] on SoftwareValet for OBOS

Just looking for folks' opinions on the value of the "software 
installer" for OpenBeOS.
 I've personally never had any use for an installer for BeOS. Never 
learned how to use
SoftwareValet -- always seemed way too complicated. I much prefer 
unzipping an archive
to where I want the app installed (for me, it's ~/apps_n_utils) and 
then, if required, copy
a couple of shared libs to ~/config/lib.

I realize, of course, that OBOS will need at least some rudimentary 
utility to install
pkg files (that is, if it achieves binary compatibility with BeOS R5 
apps) -- I just don't dig
the full-blown SV.

I see how you need something like InstallShield for that other OS 
because of the complexity
involved with [shudder, pause, wipe cold sweat from brow] ... the 
registry. Or "package
management" on GNU-Linux because, well, for me, because I don't know 
where anything
goes in that OS. But things are just so simple in Be/OBOS -- I can't 
see it being too much to
ask a user to unzip a zip file and then copy a couple libraries. Oh, 
and maybe also go
Be Menu --> Configure Be Menu to add the app's icon to the Menu.

Can't we assume OBOS users can handle this?

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