My biggest problem with flashdist is just how little is included. This is, of course, necessary for the primary goal of flashdist (working on really constrained machines) and since its goals generally align with my goals in using flashdist and since flashdist has those nice, simple, pre-built images, the fact that very little is included in the base distribution is worth trying to work around.
The “Oh, DUH!” moment came today when I realized (after much mucking about with pulling various programs I needed from other OpenBSD boxes with more complete installs and running into various issues with version differences) that I could just download base43.tgz from an OpenBSD ftp mirror onto my Mac, unzip it, and sftp what I needed over to the flashdist machine, no other OpenBSD box needed. Once I’d copied ldd over to the flashdist machine, I could even find out what libs I needed to copy over, too.
This means, of course, that I now have dhcpd and BIND running on my Alix.
