I could take care of a few of those right off the bat.

I'm not sure about vim right away, and I'll have to look into yum. It may not be a problem right now, it might. We can sure see.

My summing up in one sentence:

The ability to deploy and run Catalyst apps with everything already set up.

Easy as uploading/checking out your SVN repo and chmodding dispatch.fcgi to 755 or whatever. I HATE having to do the same f*cking thing over and over for an application that I know works. Basically, I don't want users to have to worry about spending a lot of time deploying their app. That's what development is for. Eventually I'd like to buy that VPS like I said and get everything everyone wants, (ok, not everything, but the most prominent and feasible out of the suggestions) and DEFINITELY allow for beefy RAM and more FCGI processes.

The stable environment is what I'm shooting for now. No missing modules, no broken modules, no missing dependencies, a nice environment for Catalyst or Jifty or gag RoR with pretty much everything installed already that developers commonly use. Eventually, I'd like to write up some sort of control panel that's Catalyst/$whatever specific that allows you to search for plugins and such pertaining to that very framework.

Does that sum things up at all?