[twobob]

To my mind these are the additional tools we should be aiming to provide at a minimum inside at least one flavour of the Kek Emu

Subversion, Bazaar, Git, Mercurial, SSH, SCP, xzcat, Perl, Autoconf, Automake, Libtool. and all the various chuff that brings.
I.e. be Buildroot / Autotools ready

This could be a development addon drive perhaps or a drive that can be switched to for dev puposes.

So far my efforts to provide this have met with various (documented here) disasters.

Is this a crazy idea clearly spawned in the warped cradle that is a madman's mind?
Answers on a postcard. or here. that would also work.

Thoughts on my moving these hiccups forward via external tools? anyone?
Or something I missed perhaps.

I'm leaning toward elastoplasting with externally genned stuff right now.
Buildroot I'm looking at you. *goes off to fiddle with things that may or may not help*