I have not used Slackware in quite a while. Is this a new feature?

P.S.: Your wording is rather poor in my opinion. You almost seem to imply that package management systems which perform automatic dependency resolution do it because they'd rather not make assumptions about the user's intelligence (compared to doing it because it is a useful feature for many users, regardless how smart they are). You are also saying that Slackware's PMS doesn't assume you are smart enough to figure out what the dependencies are, by providing this information (again, this sounds new to me.. back when I used Slackware no such information was provided by pkgtools).

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No, this is no new feature, at least I don't have that feature on my Slackware machines. I think what Anisha means is that sites like Slackbuilds.org or AlienBob's repository list the dependencies for the packages you can get from there.

Regarding the wording you mentioned, a race-car is build the way it is because the engineer assumes you are a good enough driver to handle the power it gives to you. That doesn't mean that you are forbidden to use a stock street car with an automatic transmission if you want to.

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No,that's not true.Maybe she/he want to learn about linux or others.
Everyone can get what he want from linux,because linux belong to us.
Why linux lives in the world? We use it.
About me,I get happy from linux.

Interesting analogy, but I find it inaccurate. I'm thinking pkgtools assuming intelligence is closer to a race car assuming talent. Assumption of driving skill would thus be closer to assumption of knowledge. A person who does not know how to drive would surely not be encouraged to learn on a race car.

Thanks for clarifying, Tobi, I meant whatever you have said, though it is my fault that I didn't mention the Slackbuild/AlienBob's sites explicitly and also the fact that simple make does list out the dependencies.

Because this person's life would be in real danger when doing something like that. But there is nothing dangerous (at least for your life) in learning Linux. I would assume that if you know how to drive the race-car (Slackware), you will not have many problems to adapt your knowledge to different cars (distributions).

But anyways, it is up to personal choice how much about a system you want to learn. I used Debian before I came to Slackware, and I think I had a somewhat good knowledge about it. I could configure it the way I want, had build different systems and live-CDs, and so on. But when I started to use Slackware I had to realize how small my knowledge about Linux is in reality.
If you are fine with knowing your system, you should learn on your system. If you want to learn more I would recommend a system that forces you to learn more, like LFS, Slackware, Arch or Gentoo. Learning Linux has, at least in my opinion, nothing to do with dependency handling, but with how you have to configure it.

Yes,Miss Kaul,Actually I'm have lots of documentation as what you said.The most important one is :http://linux.vbird.org/
built by The Linux teacher---Vbird in China,Taiwan.However It's written by traditional Chinese,You can't read it.
Vbird teach all the chinese step by step with amount of examples.Now I'm learning the Shell Script on Vbird.org
I'm a chinese,but I like English.Because I can meet great people just like Anisha Kaul and communicate with the you!!

The second important one is tLDP.org I want to read the HowTos and Guides page by page ,but there's few examples.So I have to learn the Vbird first.Could you give me some documentations with lots of examples for newbies in English ?

Though I can't develop my own linux,could I learn the LFS now??

From a guy who is an automotive technician (motor mechanic) to a pair of guys talking about race cars as an analogy can I just say you both should move away from this analogy. Just because you can turn a steering wheel and change gears in one type of car does not mean you can in another. Yes they may have a steering wheel and 4 road wheels but very few people can move from one type of race car to another easily and comfortably. I have seen many F1 and Indy drivers crash Australian V8Supercars simply because they couldn't handle it yet they have less power and do not reach the speed the open wheelers do.

You do realise you just indicated you don't know what Tobi said don't you?

I didn't mean that.
I was referring to the LFS book, which teaches you step by step how to build your own distributions.

Yes, and all I have said in my previous post was with respect to LFS.

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Sorry,Miss Kaul,My English is poor,I'm improving it as soon as I can.
And thank you very much.You give me a new jop!! I did't know what will do after learning the shell script.Now I'm ready to learn LFS!!
Long,Long Live Anisha Kaul!!!!

Not your fault, I should have mentioned it explicitly in that post that I was referring to LFS book.

Thank eveybody and Thank the race cars,Especially Anisha Kaul,you are great teacher for all of newbies!!

Now I'm to dawnload the Slackware and try to install it.See you later (^_^)

You'll need these:
http://slackwiki.org/Links#Slackware_Links
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-Links
http://vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/setting-up-slackware.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ecking-864050/

Hey, I posted similar thread and for the same reason. I've got some helpful answers there. I also have got bunch of distros and could figure out why there are so many.

TobiSGD: Apparently we are annoying some technicians (and I'm guessing we're also hijacking the thread).

From a guy who is a computer programmer to an automotive technician: so it is somewhat similar to how being able to manage packages via pkgtools does not imply you can (also, automatically) do it with dpkg / rpm / etc.?