@clacke Rosinstall seemed promising, but I wanted to avoid the dependency. I skimmed over wstool, but I should take a closer look.

(I'm still dealing with yocto and bitbake. Bitbake seems like clever idea taken too far: We'll just make everything a string combined with a framework that operates behind the scenes on those strings that does stuff. The relationship between the things in your strings and the actions they cause is not clear by inspection.)

@clacke Thanks for the links. I'll need to check those out. It's not a high priority, but I would definitely like to move away from Yocto if possible. The only reason I'm using it now is because upstream vendor (Freescale/NXP) used it. I now realize Yocto may help solve vendor's problems (and they can apparently afford the brittle complexity), but doesn't necessarily help solve small team, downstream OEM problems.

@clacke Oh, no worries. I took it that way. I'm in a collect research in the background mode on this topic anyway. So it's perfect. :)

@clacke @cstanhope @telent OMG, I'm very excited to see somebody building a NixWRT. I recently helped a client mangle NixOS into a static root file system builder for a different purpose, and while there are clearly some upstream changes that would help, it worked really nicely in a lot of ways. I'd love to see Nixpkgs/NixOS evolve into a Yocto replacement!