Build system ideas/requirements

[seth vidal]

> well, this passes by the fact that
> a) comps.xml doesn't have this concept of minimal
why not? Just make a new group, call it minimal.
> b) comps.xml IIRC has a completely different understanding of "base"
> than what I just said (the minimum self-consistent set of packages that
> give you bash)

again - call it chroot-base - but the point is the same.


> c) there are distros mach is used for that do not have comps.xml files.

I'm not talking about using the distro provided comps.xml - I'm talking
about using that format for specifying the packages installed in the
chroots.

-sv