Thanks for ideas... yea the downside of that is redundancy... if everyone did that we'd have duplicate libs in many iso files. In reality dependencies dont add up to that much though (above whats already in firmware)... and i'd rather duplicate a little on mmc than keep 1 copy in internal fs.

I doubt big projects like canola would use this, and i think that uses python which would be a lot to duplicate. In a compressed filesystem maybe though ... plus the fact it would be on mmc. I think this would be best for apps with big data files (like games) or maybe system utilities (automated essentials packs).

And if i get time i would really like to reverse engineer qole's openoffice chroot install to lift just the relevant libs/binaries/data to make a slim portable openoffice appliance.