I've been thinking; Our best bet for people who want a specific application would be for one of us to install everything into a clean chroot, and then put it in an .img file and then tar it up so that people can simply download it, untar it, and mount it as a loop device. Penguinbait does this with his KDE debs. That way you wouldn't be required to have a specific file system. You could just un-tar this .img file on any large memory card and then run the mount script. It's a bit tricky to set up, but it is much more straightforward for the end-user.

I just wish I was more than an enthusiastic self-taught wannabe. I just don't have the mad skillz necessary to do this. We need Benson or penguinbait to take an interest in developing this.

Something like this?

What's that 2097152? That should give us a gigabyte. Seems that you calculate size like this: <bytes> / 512 = <dd-count>

Now the debian.img file is mounted as /debian! Cool, huh?