Speeding-up HAM is not over(despite I find the version in latest -thumb perfectly usable), it is just that I don't want to make huge changes in such a critical piece of SW like HAM at once. Though I don't think I will touch HAM again before it is included in new CSSU-testing, but that's another story .

I don't think it is a rocket science to use oprofile, though the one in repos is too old to be used for thumb-compiled binaries(I use almost newest upstream version and will upload it in extras upon request).

Anyway, there are a couple of things missing in apt-get and FAM compared to HAM:

- system upgrade failure recovery - HAM will try to recover your system in case a reboot/powerdown happens during system upgrade
- "domains" - honestly, I don't want some speedpatch clone to creep on my device because a script-kiddie has pushed it in extras replacing a system package. don't know about FAM, but apt-get will happily install such package.
- "install scripts", etc. - look here if you are curious.

And in addition FAM is unmaintained - the fact that a long standing "bug" like autoremove being checked by default is still not fixed means that this software is not fit for the purpose of being a distribution package manager. IMO.