robert w hall wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens Benecke
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >Debian is just about exactly the opposite to Slackware. Slackware doesn't
> >really have a package manager. You install tar.gz files and that's it.
>
>
> /rant/
> tosh - the slack packages are .tgz format which a much enhanced version
> of tar.gz, and has a readable file list at the front. The package
> manager is pkgtool, or more recently upsomethingpkg.
Back when I was using Slack (close to 0.99p13 days), the enhanced
tar.gz packages didn't handle dependencies (and Debian
did). Still like that? (It's probably what Jens meant)
> The packages can be
> derived from rpms by rpm2tgz. Most Slack users are (necessarily!) fluent
> in these techniques. They can also read documentation...
>
> Most slackers learn how to compile a kernel before their first birthday
> too!
>
> /rant/
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