Browsing about on K.Mandla's blog I ended up fascinated with his experiments in no X, dvtm, and various other lightweight software. As I went further down the rabbit hole, I ended up searching for a source-based linux distribution which was very simple (doesn't pull in lots of dependencies on install), and had something like the FreeBSD ports system. Crux was what I found, and (so far) I've only found one piece of software I needed that the ports system did not have. Better than that - the ports system was simple enough that I was able to create a port for the missing softare that night, and have the repository publicly available the very next night!

If found that useful enough to setup a mini-project entry about httpup repository deployment. The procedure was simple but as with any semi-complex task, the how will fade away much faster than the what and why.