Vlad wroteWell, I have a few ideas so here they go:

- Disable graphical login from the root account so one can login and debug if things are not working
- change Firefox with some other browser as it connects to a lot of servers and makes unwanted connections. Sorry I don't know of any other browser.
- Change the package manager to Guix. Personally I haven't tried Guix yet but the idea behind it is related to the fragmentation in the package management space seen on Linux distros. There seem to be a few categories into which package managers fall into: BSD like (emerge from Gentoo), yum like and I guess here is where pacman goes, pkg_add like (like on Slackware and some of the newer non systemd independent distros like Void, Dragora).
- Make a smaller iso with minimalistic approach: graphical environment, network tools so one can connect to the internet, debug, secure the network and so on, browser, picture viewer, music player, irc client and that's all. Configure repository by default so users can easily pull the required packages.

- Disable graphical login from the root account so one can login and debug if things are not working

you can do that easily by rename the file ~/.zlogin and /root/.zlogin for the root

- change Firefox with some other browser as it connects to a lot of servers and makes unwanted connections. Sorry I don't know of any other browser.
i try to use palemoon (i have rebuild it without systemd) but for the moment i doesn't want to push it on the repo. need more test.
you can try qupzilla if you want or chromium

- Make a smaller iso with minimalistic approach: graphical environment, network tools so one can connect to the internet, debug, secure the network and so on, browser, picture viewer, music player, irc client and that's all. Configure repository by default so users can easily pull the required packages.

It's the case already :), but i need to work on the iso structure to reduce his size. Howerver i prepare a package for install a system without systemd from the official arch iso. this scripts allow you to choose what packages you want and configure automaticly the home directory as you wish. i mean if you want i3 or xfce or no xorg it's up to you. For the moment i'am not ready to share it.

- Change the package manager to Guix. Personally I haven't tried Guix yet but the idea behind it is related to the fragmentation in the package management space seen on Linux distros. There seem to be a few categories into which package managers fall into: BSD like (emerge from Gentoo), yum like and I guess here is where pacman goes, pkg_add like (like on Slackware and some of the newer non systemd independent distros like Void, Dragora).


i don't hnow Guix but i will to keep on eye on it

The reason I talked about Guix is that from what I see there are more and more packages that need to be cleared from systemd. I believe that maybe Guix can provide a more streamlined approach to package management and dependencies across packages making the maintenance easier in the long run.

Vlad wroteThe reason I talked about Guix is that from what I see there are more and more packages that need to be cleared from systemd. I believe that maybe Guix can provide a more streamlined approach to package management and dependencies across packages making the maintenance easier in the long run.

it's very difficult to find tools as more easier to use as pacman, makepkg, pkgbuild. With these tools, you can make what do you want with the source code. Maintainning the system is perfect too if you build the package correctly. Another people prefer yum or emerge.... it's a choice. I work with arch tools everyday and more i practice more i like it. Arch is on the place from a while now and their tools are at maturity.