Hi Till.

great that you are working on such a tool. As a side note, what do you think about adding support for standard Debian packages to manage third-party software?

Well, first of all, like you said in your other post, this software isn't going to support any package format other than the .upgrade one.
Second thing: Though I know that the ability to install any software on the empeg is tempting, I am certain that it is not what the broader masses would want (including me). though harddisc space isn't especially tight on the empeg, I still think we should keep any software package as small as possible, especially in terms of RAM consumption. Now the packages generally distributed usually contain as much functionality as possible without much attention paid to memory usage.
So my vote goes against support for standard packages.

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)