non-packaged already broke many things… better to unbreak it with some interim breakage.
A read only packaged directory makes infinitely more sense than a non-packaged read write… and would have been forwards compatible with all BeOS software and paths.
Sigh… in any case I’d have preferred no packagefs at all. And a frontend for Arch’s pacman… instead of insisting that we could fix package management with something “revolutionary” that has instead segregated developers and users of Haiku.
That said the original BeBox PPC hardware can in theory handle up to 1GB… of ram. Probably 256MB without too much issues. So, it should be possible to get Haiku working… even if its slow.