Gradually trim out stuff we don't want / need:
- pulseaudio - gone
- wayland - gone (temporarily re-added due to kwin5 deps - working to untie again)
- packagekit - gone
- polkit - gone (reintroduced - there's just too many things that have been modified to only work with it)
- apparmor - gone
- ibus and suchlike - gone
- /usr/etc? WTF?? - to be removed
- mysql/mariadb - why force me to install it unless I want to USE it, which I don't - gone
- udisks2 - what is it and why is it on my system? - gone (temporarily re-added for polkit reasons)
- NetworkManager - should be an optional install - gone
- other random things that add complexity while violating KISS (looking at you, *Kit and *Manager) - gone

Reduce unnecessary dependencies on various things
- systemd and friends. Only include the bare minimum needed for systemd to act as an init system
- replace all "unit file" nonsense with GOF init scripts
- drop systemd journal b.s. in favor of rsyslog or similar
- elogind to replace systemd-logind?
- eventually replace systemd with sysv init?

** Note that `done` above is with regards to my currently installed system at home and only reflects those packages currently in use

Packages that take so long to be scheduled for build, they can easily (and repeatedly) prevent repo publishing until a whole new build cycle has begun. Meaning the repo never gets published at all.... Annoying? YOU BET!