This may seem like a strange place to ask if anyone else is interested in a server orientated set of packages that fit in and align with the KAOS desktop system and philosophy but here we go. Is anyone hereabouts interested in a lean set of nginx/php7 packages that could co-exist with (optionally in a container or even a remote VPS/dedicated) a KAOS desktop?

By "coexist" I mean to leverage as much of the Qt/Plasma desktop as is possible to setup, control, maintain and take advantage of backend web and mail services (and DNS if needed). The simplest example case is to run ownCloud for addressbook and calendar storage, and obviously shared files, but I am also thinking of using the systemsetting user KCM to do things like optionally manage users on these local/remote/container servers. Eventually to create entire LXD based containers locally and live migrate them to remote servers by using as much of Qt/Plasma as possible to configure and manage these and other remote servers in general.

This kind of server management could be done from a web based admin/user control panel but I'm not aware of anything that natively runs on an Arch-based server system and for the amount of work (for me) to write some PHP system from scratch I think my time could be better spent developing plasmoids that do the same job. Anyway, that is rather pie in sky daydreaming and the first thing to do would be to get a coherent lean set of mail and web server packages together with a set of bash scripts to manage them as a unit. I'm curious if there are any other KAOS users here who would also be interested in a set of server packages.

a web based admin/user control panel but I'm not aware of anything that natively runs on an Arch-based server system

Looks like you are starting with the wrong distro for your goals, KaOS is NOT Arch based, see the FAQ for that.

There are many Arch based distros available, best use one of those if that is your intended target.

@demm, thanks for the link, perhaps I should have said "Arch-like" instead of "Arch-based". The basic point remains that most server orientated admin/user control panels run on non-arch-like systems, mainly centos/redhat with fewer options for buntu/debian, so it makes sense to me that if I am going to put quite some effort into a plug-n-play-like LEMP server and want to grow a management system around Qt/Plasma and the simpler and sane flexibility of pacman/makepkg (compared to deb/rpm) then KaOS is a great candidate.

That part I fully agree. Not having to re-install, using the excellent pacman are all logic solutions for a server to me.

And stability has been top for me too.....

The buildserver used for building all the KaOS ISOs and many of the packages runs a KaOS install from August 2013. It is completely remotely serviced, went through the KDE 5 to Plasma 5 transition just with a pacman update.

Is PHP 7 needed for your plan? Since PHP 5.6 is still fully maintained, there are no plans yet to move to 7 already.

Yes, PHP7 would be required plus a couple of other packages that are probably not in your repo. I see, I skipped over the "no AUR" part so there is no room to move outside of your well defined path. As much as I will miss being involved with such a like minded community as KaOS it looks like I'll have to pivot around the more inclusive Archlinux community... or even stick to *buntu for now. Thanks for your feedback.

I skipped over the "no AUR" part so there is no room to move outside of your well defined path.

You can contribute in KCP

To use any of the ~50.000 PKGBUILD available all over: