The Slackware 'required' doesn't resolve dependencies. It's just a label in the tagfiles so that you can choose to only install so-called 'required' packages or 'optional' or all. i theink the swaret or slackpkg people are trying to implement a new standard for the desc files that would implement this feature. the 'required' label just means that it is a package that is higly recommended to be installed. many of them can be dispensed with without affecting the functionality of Slackware.
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