En Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:49:37AM -0000, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. escribio:
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#_ Well said. But some of us using Linux aspire to become hackers rather than
#_ providers of stable linux/open solution to clients. So the knowledge of
#_ what happens "under the hood" is more valuable than the ease of an rpm
#_ update. And there are a lot of hoods to look under in any UNIX system.
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#_ Ambo
#_ Slackware since 1994
BTW, it is a missconception to say that Slackware has no package manager.
Slackware has a package manager, those xxxxx.tgz are in fact binaries. And
Slackware has a makepakage utility (I forgot the exact name). You can
download the source tarball and make a slackware package with it with their
makepackage utility. It may not be as refined as rpm or debian's, but with a
little practice it's should be easy. Reading the Slackware 8 ANNOUNCE.TXT:
- Updated versions of the Slackware package management tools make it easy
to add, remove, upgrade, and make your own Slackware packages.
I'm a happy Mandrake user, but Slackware broke my linux cherry ;->
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