Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-20 Thread Jheengut Pritvi
On 19 Feb 2018 12:47 am, "Didier Spaier" wrote: Le 18/02/2018 à 21:19, B Watson a écrit : > On 2/18/18, Didier Spaier wrote: >>> >>> When installing software, if a package is available through slapt-get, >>> it will install it, otherwise it will install it

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-20 Thread Petar Petrov
heh... i really wish CRUX's prt-get could work with SBo https://crux.nu/doc/prt-get%20-%20User%20Manual.html 2018-02-16 10:29 GMT+02:00 Jheengut Pritvi : > With the forthcoming of Slackware 15.0, I have been nostalgic of the > days when I tried crazy thing with my

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-18 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 18/02/2018 à 21:19, B Watson a écrit : > On 2/18/18, Didier Spaier wrote: >>> >>> When installing software, if a package is available through slapt-get, >>> it will install it, otherwise it will install it through slapt-src. If >>> any SlackBuild dependencies are available

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-18 Thread B Watson
On 2/18/18, Didier Spaier wrote: >> >> When installing software, if a package is available through slapt-get, >> it will install it, otherwise it will install it through slapt-src. If >> any SlackBuild dependencies are available through slapt-get, it will >> install them through

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-18 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, Le 18/02/2018 à 10:52, Jheengut Pritvi a écrit : <>> My supposition is the ability to manage packages from a singular > command from maybe multiple binary repo and source repo. > > > Slackware is meant to be installed as a whole. > What if you want the simplicity of Slackware and the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-18 Thread Jheengut Pritvi
On 16 February 2018 at 12:29, Jheengut Pritvi wrote: > The big question::: > Is it worthwhile for a ports/portage/pacman like package manager for > Slackware that manages both binary and source packages? > > > It could be tool on top of pkgtool and sbopkg. On 18

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-17 Thread B Watson
On 2/18/18, Jheengut Pritvi wrote: > But pkgsrc does not use the slackbuilds.org Slackbuilds to build packages. Have you looked at sbotools? It's at least somewhat similar to ports/pkgsrc (or anyway it's been described to me that way, I haven't actually used it). One

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-17 Thread Jheengut Pritvi
But pkgsrc does not use the slackbuilds.org Slackbuilds to build packages. On 16 February 2018 at 14:11, Noryungi wrote: > If you go that way, may I draw your attention to the fact that NetBSD pkgsrc > exists and works very well under Slackware? > > Why reinvent the wheel? >

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Is it worthwhile for a ports like package manager for Slackware

2018-02-16 Thread Noryungi
If you go that way, may I draw your attention to the fact that NetBSD pkgsrc exists and works very well under Slackware? Why reinvent the wheel? On Feb 16, 2018 09:29, "Jheengut Pritvi" wrote: > With the forthcoming of Slackware 15.0, I have been nostalgic of the > days