Personally I think in my opionion, I don't like RPM files ... I perferr Debian & Slackware-like upgrades, *.tgz, etc. I think they are more controllable as far as extracting them to somewhere other than / first. Plus, I somewhat like (and dislike) the way Solaris does its upgrade packaging... the base Solaris installation is basically the OS and X/Openwin; but then again, Solaris' installation pretty much is a POS =)
I think there should be a base Linux standard install, plus different add-on packages on one CD; with things like the compiler/programming utils, X/apps, GNOME/etc, networking/etc; plus where they are easy to add... I think standards is a good idea... I hate to deal with a zillion different Linux initd configurations of all things. (*cough* redhat) I'm suprised Slackware didn't join in on this yet; they'd be a good contribution... I like how straight forward and simple how thier distro works. I think that should be a big goal. Just 2 cents. -- Xirphoid
