Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

> Maybe one day effort will be merged into a distribution-development-kit based on bitbake or portage. Then Fedora can be DDK with one set of custom packages (e.g. branding) and compile options, and Ubuntu can be a different one.

Well, portage is a damn good system for building a distro. Throw in systemd as the one init system to rule them all :-)

But I think where systemd and portage both (like a huge amount of Open Source software) fall down badly is the lack of decent STARTER documentation. Open Source documentation is good, but it's mostly of the sort that only makes sense once you already know what it means - it's a reference not a tutorial. I've written my own systemd init file and it was torture, because I didn't know where to start. And I still think it's got a number of nasty glitches that I need to debug. However I really don't think SystemV would have been any easier ...

Cheers,
Wol