I really ask myself why Intel does not setup a regular package server? This would make your live much easier. Especially for all the guys out there like me, who don't have a dedicated build machine for the BSP stuff but.
Most likely because doing this officially (with timely bug fixes, upgrades, security patches,...) would cost a lot of resources, time and money, whereas Galileo is not exactly a high-margin product. Alex' work looks incredibly useful but it comes with no maintenance guarantee whatsoever. If Intel's name were on something like this the expectations would be in a completely different range.
Note it's not because Linux distributions like Debian or Fedora are "free" that they don't cost a lot. Debian for instance is the continuous work of thousands of highly-skilled volunteers.
One long term solution is to have all distributions like Debian supporting Quark platforms out of the box by merging most of the patches in the BSP into the upstream Linux kernel (and other upstream projects). Paid Intel employees are working on this right now, see the Linux kernel mailing list(s).
