Automatic Linux Build System

An idea came up:

In short: Build a Linux distribution, including automatic configuration tools as far as it is possible, that will be distributable to several platform.

Longer: Setting up the basic Linux and tools for a specific hardware platform can be a tedious task, even using the already existing menuconfig. menuconfig is a console based menudriven system configuration tool that produces all the necessary makefiles and other settings in order to build a specific target.

In order to ease the configuration process a tool may be developed. The purpose of the tool is to present the user all the choices in the correct order in order to solve all constraints that is often found implicit in the menuconfig. The tool must start is work by analysing specification files, make files, etc. in order to determine the correct mix of settings and included software.