[jeswin]

Taking focus away from the central vision will jeopardize the company - shipping and maintaining a distro is laborious; so please don't do this.

If at all, a script to automatically download/compile deps will be more than adequate (not necessary).

[nrp]

Yes, we would very much like to rely on the great distros that are already out there for now, working with them as needed to ensure compatibility (which we have already done with a handful).