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-Jay

On Friday 12 November 2004 05:39 am, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> Saying that something lacks package dependency checking and saying
> something lacks package management altogether are two completely different
> things.
>
> Personally, however, I apparently don't need dependency checks at all.
> I've happily managed my slackware systems just fine without it since
> starting on Linux (with Slackware no less) almost a decade ago. I've also
> never touched Swaret or slapt-get, though I hear they're quite good. The
> only problem I ever had with Slackware's package management was easily
> creating a package when installing from source, so that it may be easily
> removed and/or upgraded when needed. Checkinstall has solved that sole
> problem.
>
> Thus, far from "impossible." Even far from "difficult." I'd venture to say
> "pretty painless."


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