>All this is about is book-keeping. Installing a Slackware package as >Slackware package means that there is absolutely no record of what you >have done; if, for example, it overwrites an important file, it will be >*very* hard to find out.
I agree with this... For example, I already have (a.out) tcl 7.4 and tk 4.0 on my system, in /usr/local... Quite a few packages would squawk when I installed them, claiming I needed tcl/tk... There should be a very simple mechanism to allow me to update dpkg's stuff to say that the stuff I already have 'provides' tcl/tk... -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.me.umn.edu/0h/home/kaszeta/www.html -- Tabasco. Don't leave ~ without it.
