I found the developer image on my MK 1 to be quite useful. It was small, and allowed me, as a developer to add what I need. I don't want empeg making my .upgrade files bigger because they include worthless things like ftpd, and such. Odds are that I'd want a different daemon, so the additional files would be worthless. The developer imager was ment to allow people interested in adding to the empeg a way into the core, and enough programs to allow a developer to get what they need. Anything beyond that is fluff that is not needed. I don't mean for this to sound harsh, but if you can't add what you want into the empeg on your own, then you need to wait for someone else to write some documentation on what they did. Expecting empeg to go beyond providing an MP3 player is not realistic. It never said on their site that they have to provide users with a developer image that does everything under the sun. And they also never said your paying $1000 or more to get a player, and developer support.
Rereading the above still seems a bit harsh. I don't honestly intend for it to be that way, but I hate to see such a great product being knocked down for not meeting unreasonable demands from the creators.