Build system ideas/requirements

[seth vidal]

> >> c) there are distros mach is used for that do not have comps.xml files.
> >
> > I'm not talking about using the distro provided comps.xml - I'm talking
> > about using that format for specifying the packages installed in the
> > chroots.
> 
> What would be the advantage of this? You will have to maintain yet
> another configuration file with an ugly format (XML), and it will not
> work with other depsolvers like apt or smartpm.

Right, I'm having trouble trying to figure out why we're bothering with
support for other depsolvers at this time. We just need to build now.

-sv