Subj : Slackware 15-ish
To : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue Feb 23 2021 09:31 pm
Hello Maurice!
23 Feb 2021 15:11, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:
BP>> slackware just miss gentoo portage
MK> I've never heard anyone using slackware ever complain about the lack
MK> of proprietary apps before.
+1
its like windows 10 never miss explore 11
BP>> revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg
MK> How so?
revdep-rebuild fix if some precompiled installs fails with ldd /bin/bash
or in slackware now ldd /bin/awk
MK> I've never used slackpkg and have never heard of
MK> revdep-rebuild before now.
you never used gentoo then
MK> Personally I prefer slackware pkg format
MK> to deb, rpm, whatever,
why not keep it debian then ?
MK> given that it requires no additional tools to
MK> deal with it. tar and xz these days is all it takes, although mc for
MK> browsing tarballs is a nice touch.
my now brokken slackware only uses taballs, not db files
Regards Benny
... too late to die young :)
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