Parallels

I keep seeing parallels and overlapping functionality between various programs. systemd overlaps with cron (envisioned, not yet implemented, I think), and the session manager. I think package management would integrate usefully with systemd. I've been reading up on cfengine. It also overlaps with cron and the package manager.

I want to bring together many of the good ideas I've found on the interwebs into one well integrated system. I'd thought to start from the kernel level and build up, but now it occurs to me that I can start with something akin to OpenQRM and work down through the package manager and init system to the kernel.