Distro Ideas

I'm looking for an i686 optimized distro with dependency-checking (and preferably BSD ports-style)package management. It can be a source distribution (that is preferable, actually). I'd also like it to have a very miniscule amount of preinstalled packages, only enough for a base system. I'd like to compile the rest of the packages that I want myself. I tried Arch, and it's the closest to what I want so far, but I don't really like the DevFS. CRUX looks alright, but it's package management doesn't check for dependencies, and it, too, uses the DevFS. Gentoo is another distro that I use and love, but I would like something a little more obscure (so people'll ask, "What's that?"). Any ideas?

Woo-hoo! I got another little box under my name! By the way, these boards are really nice. I plan on visting these for the next couple of years (or until I find a board like this, except all UNIX).

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I'd help, but I'm a newbie when it comes in Linux.

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Well there is this distribution called.... Core Linux and its really just a very very naked Linux distro that barely gives you enough tools to slap yourself on the net and download what you want from windows managers package managers etc.......

Not for the linux newbie
http://coredistro.sourceforge.net/

Hmmm.... I had heard about that. Maybe I'll give it a shot. I'm just a little mad at Slack because of all the packages it installs. Konqueror, Galeon, Epiphany, and Mozilla. Who the heck uses 4 browsers? I think I'll just go back to Gentoo...

What kind of package management does Core have? Is it a source-based distro?

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