To reply to your points: - Debian doesn't ship ifconfig because it considers it a legacy tool and expects you to use 'ip'. - We already have a package tool. Do you think pkg_* are doing poorly on file ownership? I don't intend to port apt-get. - I assume the open coding of file ownership is because they provide a working setup, whereas we expect users to configure things. - Someone has been doing some recent stuff regarding syspkgs: https://github.com/user340/basepkg
I don't plan to do the work on making syspkgs, I just don't want to make things worse by adding a full but mostly incapable browser in base. We can ship several packages and add a stage in sysinst to install them. It'd have a more satisfactory outcome. Plus, at the end, I could 'pkgin upgrade' and get updates to stuff.
