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Personally I agree with your statement, there is a lot about the build structure that can just be held standardly on already-working systems .. its nice to have for example, the known debian/ tree structures, etc. 'make dirs'/&etc.

Seems, though, that we humans are infinitely packaging things, at least in the OS space. There are a nearly insurmountable number of ways of setting something up so the computer can execute something for us. Tree-structures, package formats, .desktop files, and all of these things .. its an infinite taxonomy.

Personally, I yearn for a very smart OS which boots straight to console, and yet then implements everything - everything, desktop, games, etc. - in a single language context. In a lab full of beagleboards and arduinos and so on, the desire is to reduce the language-load on the smaller machines. I think that a single-language, wide-open, for these platforms would make for a new OS opportunity.

Not much of a jump from booting a working kernel+load81 "./main.lua" to a new directory structure to follow. :)