xikuuky Wrote:For packages I will supply a package manager I wrote myself that builds packages from git using shell scripts. It is a less flexible system but it works for what I'll do.

"Wrote"? Did you write anything yet? 'cause I'd be interrested in reading what you've done so far. I'm currently working on a package manager myself I already have a "working" solution using shell script, but I'm not satisfied with it, so I'm rewriting everything from scratch in C, focusing on different concepts.

xikuuky Wrote:We are going to probably be 64bit exclusive (sorry ARM, x86, and MIPS users). If it isn't hard to cross compile, I may add x86.

x86 is a CPU architecture, which uses either 32 or 64bits. So you're probably opposing x86_64 to x86 there. Beware the wording is such a pedantic forum ;)

xikuuky Wrote:I'll have the base system preinstalled hopefully and I'll hopefully be able to update it with ease. Make + autotools will install, uninstall, and configure software. The package manager runs on Git and Make so it works perfectly. Users will have a .software or .packages or ~/Code/Soft(ware) area that holds the source of the packages. I'd like feedback. Thank you!

It's the simplest way to go indeed, and if softwares were done properly, we wouldn't need package managers. The problem is that not all software use a makefile, and even if they do, not many propose the "uninstall" target.
This is why package manager were created in the first place, they track files intalled by each package, and allow the user to easily remove/update them. It later handled package dependency, which became an issue when dynamic linking started to kick off.

You should take a look at how other people solved those problems. here are a few links to get you started:

• http://git.z3bra.org/cgit.cgi/pkit/tree/README
  
• https://github.com/dimkr/packlim
  
• https://github.com/radare/slpm
  
• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view...kgmgt.html
  

xikuuky Wrote:Also, I'll include Toy/Busybox hopefully and have bash and zsh installed by default and scripts already on the machine to build things like Python, Python2, Vim, and the such. :)

Choosing the default set of packages is always a hard task ;)
I'd personally go with the bare minimum: init, device manager, shell, coreutils, netutils and that's all. I'll certainely have to add the package manager and curl to the live usb though, to make bootstraping easier.

xikuuky Wrote:how hard is it to compile X?

really hard if you need to package everything yourself.