Ben- There's only one thing that I would like to see, and that's to facilitate compiling and installing native packages on other systems.
I currently work on solaris and since I use a lot of GNU tools I currently download all packages that can handle ./configure --prefix=/sup;make;make install and they'll just work. So I guess the system needs to support functionality that I can use the .orig.tgz files (no debianization) because then I can just apt-get source and build and have it work, meaning I can automize a dir with non- standard stuff on solaris. This would also make the system completely non-debian dependent (i.e. people can use it on hp-ux for maintaining a GNU tools tree in /opt by downloading, compiling and installing sources for example) and allow for a lot of flexibility. Nils.
