> <impish grin> The less time I spend hunting down dependencies, the more > time I can spend studying software and experimenting with things to see > what works.
I'm more of a programmer than a sysadmin and I find Slackware the perfect programmer's distro. Programmers *should* understand and preferably directly deal with the dependencies of the projects they want to hack on. In practice, the process of 'hunting down' dependencies is very educational and is actually very little hassle. I've installed some packages with many fairly deep dependencies - like SDL - in Slackware and I've /never/ found myself wishing for any sort of automated dependency management.
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