Quoting fuzzix <fuzzbucket at eircom.net>:
> Colm Buckley wrote:
> > I can actually take a stab at answering that one. Debian was the
> > first distro to make the model of centralised binary distribution
> > with regular, automatable updates work. It was a conscious move away
> > from the Slack model of download-configure-make-install which led to
> > so much heartache and grief (lack of dependency resolution, lack of
> > consistent and rigorous rules about what a package should be and how
> > it should behave, and so on).
>> Funnily enough, I moved from Mandrake and Ubuntu TO Slackware... But
> then, retrograde steps seem to be common in my life ;)
>> No, no... this isn't an "everybody should use Slaxxxzzz!" post - I do
> recognise that dependency resolution and so on, when they work, are
> desirable features for most. It was just after my second set of mutually
> exclusive deps in Ubuntu that I said "Hmm... I think I can do a better
> job than this software" and so far it's worked well for me. I don't
> generally configure && make && make install - there are decent Slack
> package repositories out there and dependency resolution's there if you
> want it...
>
you should check out the reverse dependancy functionality of portage (rev-dep)
:p
> ...don't try to shake me from my delusions - they're solid and I'm
> ecstatic. Just sayin' is all :)
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