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 ===== General =====
-==== What is the Wonderful Toolchain? ====
-The Wonderful Toolchain is an assortment of development toolchains for a variety of embedded platforms, with a particular focus on "bare metal" game consoles, which I maintain for personal research and development purposes.
-Unlike other such projects, it is primarily intended as an experimental testbed for my own use; it may not be the best choice if you want a long-term, dependable solution. However, if you like to tinker, you might find it just right.
 ==== How can I install the Wonderful Toolchain? ====
 See the [[getting_started|getting started guide]] for more information.
+==== What is the Wonderful Toolchain? ====
+The Wonderful Toolchain is my personal research project - a space to experiment with development tooling approaches for "retro" handhelds and other forgotten platforms. As such, it may not be the best choice if you want a long-term, dependable solution. However, if you like to tinker, you might find it just right.
 ==== What long-term stability guarantees does the Wonderful Toolchain provide? ====
 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.
+===== Installation =====
+==== 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.