Hello Maurice!

23 Feb 2021 15:11, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> slackware just miss gentoo portage
 MK> I've never heard anyone using slackware ever complain about the lack 
 MK> of proprietary apps before.

+1

its like windows 10 never miss explore 11

 BP>> revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg
 MK> How so?

revdep-rebuild fix if some precompiled installs fails with ldd /bin/bash

or in slackware now ldd /bin/awk

 MK> I've never used slackpkg and have never heard of 
 MK> revdep-rebuild before now.

you never used gentoo then

 MK> Personally I prefer slackware pkg format 
 MK> to deb, rpm, whatever,

why not keep it debian then ?

 MK> given that it requires no additional tools to 
 MK> deal with it.  tar and xz these days is all it takes, although mc for 
 MK> browsing tarballs is a nice touch.

my now brokken slackware only uses taballs, not db files


 Regards Benny

... too late to die young :)

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