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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Why do you worry about installers? New distro - new kernel - new
> > installer
> 
> Because the same code tends to be shared with post install configuration
> tools too.

So change them as well for a new distribution. What's there problem.
There isn't anything out there you can't do by hand. 
Fortunately so!
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