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 Unfortunately, due to the R&D nature of the toolchain, no long-term stability guarantees can be made; I wish to retain the freedom to break and modify things to improve them. I will try my best to provide migration advice and information for any such breaking changes, however.
+===== Design =====
+==== Can I use a system-provided version of the Pacman package manager? ====
+No, and it is unlikely to ever be possible. wf-pacman is customized to (a) treat ''/opt/wonderful'' as the root directory and (b) allow running without root.
+  * This approach allows reducing concerns of safety and security over a package manager that can write to the entire system space.
+  * The Wonderful toolchain wishes to minimize system configuration divergence while still supporting diverse configurations. Standardizing components of the toolchain helps maintain that goal.