flexible packaged linux, was Re: registration request

Laurent Bercot <[email protected]>:

>  One of the benefits of /package is that it's not system-dependent.
> Creating a (scalable) Linux distribution conforming to /package would
> be great, but I'd rather focus on having every part of my /package
> installation working before wondering what Unix kernel to use with it.

right.  i think paul has already packaged up linux-2.4x.

>  That said, we aren't there yet. We still need a clever way to store
> users (userdir looks promising), to perform authentication, etc.

can't these be packages, too?  i see no reason why /package can't
offer different auth and user-administration subsystems.  userdir
already allows for some level of abstraction, the unix-filesystem way.

  clemens