Polls re: new linux distribution

[Rich Edelman]

Since the list has been slow lately, I figured I'd try to stir up some 
conversation/debate by asking a few questions. :)

First a quick note. I'm an LFSer (Linux From Scratch) when I'm not using 
OpenSUSE. I've often thought of making some of my LFS packages available to 
the community, but haven't because of the nature of LFS. Anyway, I was 
thinking more about that tonight and decided to ask the list some questions.

If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package 
management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own?

What about managing dependencies and fetching packages from remote 
repositories? yast? apt? smart? yum? urpmi? portage?

What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64?

On multilib capable arches (such as x86_64), would you support both 32 and 64 
bit, or go 64 bit only?

Would you go the way of Ubuntu, and work around Gnome mainly? Or the way SuSE 
traditionally was, and be mostly KDE oriented?

There we go, I think that might get the ball rolling. :)

Rich