I used to be a Reconstructor dev. I do understand automation & love it. I used to integrate Reconstructor in Ultimate Edition. I did have an admin that was against such posts, I however am for progression of Linux. I do not care if John Schmuckelli uses your tool to build the next Ultimate Edition & perhaps be more successful at it then even I. Linux is what advances and I love to help educate ppl.
I will try your tool, I can almost promise you I will not use it to personally build Ultimate Edition. That does not mean users of Ultimate Edition will not try / like your tool. I said I would come back to this post (I am installing 377 updates
How I build Ultimate Edition currently (6 debs in Ultimate Edition 2.8):
Deb #1: ultimate-edition-2.8.deb
Description: This deb is a metapackage & installs 1000's of packages (Ultimate Edition related software)
Deb #2: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu_30_all.deb
Description: This is the installation slide show package. This displays features, donors, credits, etc.
Deb #3: ultimate-edition-2.8.0-plymouth_all.deb
Description: This deb installs the Plymouth splash screen.
Deb #4: ultimate-edition-2.8.0-xsplash_all.deb
Description: This installs the XSplash (I think they are working on ripping out this feature if they have not already done so)
Deb #5: ultimate-edition-theme-2.8.0-all.deb
Description: Installs virtually the entire theme set for Ultimate Edition, wallpapers, cursors, GTK's, Metacity, Emerald, compiz files, etc. Does not set any defaults.
Deb #6: ultimate-edition-customizations-2.8.0_all.deb
Description: I have saved the best for last. This is one heavy deb. This deb creates the users /etc/skel/ and sets defaults for the O/S. Compiz settings sets the wallpaper, start up programs, users homepage, Installs Ultimate Edition Guide and sets Icons, Gtk, Metacity, Emerald, sets Compiz to engage by default, sets metacitys layout to the way it should be, sets RSS feeds. I could go on and on over this package, this is the one that took me 4 months to write.
I chroot into 10.10 in this case, copy those 6 debs to /tmp and dpkg -i *.deb & the O/S is ready for building. I do not see any program making it any simpler then that. It used to take me weeks to make an O/S, I built both alphas the same day, then again I did not care about bugs... It is an alpha, come time for final, I will go through it with a finetooth comb.