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   Message 6,954 of 8,232   
   Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal   
   Slackware 15-ish   
   23 Feb 21 21:31:10   
   
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   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 :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.11.0-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))   
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)   
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