z3bra Wrote:version control: git
pkg management: tar.gz containing fakeroot installs

Next subject ? :P

Sure git :P. I personally would prefer an ports like, git controled system that uses make scripts like PKGBUILDS or slackbuilds. Just because its easy to maintain, easy to use and very modular. I dont know that much about pkgsrc; used it a time with Arch; but a totally nixers.net driven ports tree would be nicer imo. In that way its easy to make it rolling which simply awesome.
We can use two branches, a rolling and a "stable".
Then we need a database and a chroot install script to create the base system.

So that would be my recommention