eric wroteSome are far away behind and some are far away ahead. As i said i do not need gksu for my personnal use. But for people behind which want to learn it can be usefull. i mean, learning all the things in the same time it's not possible. So, step by step. When people as a sufficient knowledge to not use this kind of stuff, they can erase it from their system.
A another example can be the ISO. Yeah, i can provide a very minimal ISO with only 130 package on it but it will be useful for people to be able to test the system? For an advanced user surely, but for people who want to learn ...
i also think you said it better than i did. everything i do is about the shades of grey that i want covered--
i dont want to make a thing thats only for advanced users, nor do i want to create something that doesnt encourage a little bit of learning. what im always trying to do is make a thing that makes it easier for many to learn to teach themselves. this is an art, which the best teachers are constantly developing. not every distro has to do that, but every distro covers some range.
another great thing about distros is that they can showcase new ideas. obarun is my # 1 stop for learning about s6. im curious about it, but lazy. the more people (you, anybody) talks about s6 the more curious i am, the more curious i am the more likely i am to learn.
but i know exactly where to start with s6-- because ive dealt with the author of obarun personally. in the older communities at least, people knew each other. that made a huge difference imo, and this is like one of the older communities. a funny thing happened when l5t tried to make one very feature-creepy "init" (*cough* replacement os) the official standard (replacement) of all gnu/linux distros-- a lot of people who never cared about init systems were suddenly very interested in them!
4 years ago, i wouldve said "init? whatever. it works." i didnt care what s6 was, im sure its nice. now... very interesting stuff. "what? s6? ive heard steve litt talk about it, what? obarun has it? cool!" im sure there are lots of reasons to look at obarun. but if im looking at s6 then i dont want to install it and try it where its not "already working", i want a demo, a working introduction. and i can say "you want to try s6? just run obarun, its the default. good community, helpful maintainer."
doesnt sound like a big deal in a world with 300+ distros, but i think these things are too rare, and that makes it a big deal.