I'll reply to the rest of this (if someone doesn't beat me to it) tomorrow, but just wanted to comment on your closing comment:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 22:25 -0700, jerry gay wrote: > that's an install tree > policy, and as far as i'm concerned, it hasn't been addressed yet > (along with many other install-related policies.) It seems to be time to make these policy decisions, at least on a draft basis -- because we have considerable volunteer effort being applied to getting installable packages working. We should be answering the necessary policy questions so that said volunteer effort can simultaneously -Ofun and help Parrot. We should *not* put this off for an indefinite future and lose the contribution. -'f
