Knightron |
04-28-2012 08:46 AM |
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Originally Posted by nooralain
(Post 4665295)
What you meant by that ???i dont understand exactly i guess that it can install packages and not automatically install the dependencies .............
Thats a bad point if its does not configure them auto
coz its like doing more work..??
:)
i wanned good points so that i can install slackware
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Don't let that put you off. Slackware is one of the best distros out there and many people will agree or argue 'not one of, but the best'. Slackware's package management doesn't solve dependencies and lacks automation. It's more comparable to dpkg or rpm than apt or yum. Don't let this put you off though, because working this way has it's benefits too. You have more control over your system working like this, and something that is often forgotten is that not all dependencies are actually needed by an application, but may be in fact there for a certain functionality, and you may not have a need for foo functionality.
for example, sometimes i like to use gnome2/mate desktop environment, but i hate nautilus, i prefer to use xfdesktop and Dolphin to replace it, but nautilus is a dependency of gnome-session. Try removing nautilus without the rest of gnome2/mate and it can be pretty hard, especially in a Debian based distro.
Another reason it's not so bad; You may have compiled a package from source and the package manager is not aware of it, well if you are running a package manager that check dependencies it won't cooperate with your compiled package very well. Or maybe you want to install a package that depends on a lower version of a library, than you have installed, and a simple symlink of the library would work nicely; that way you don't have to downgrade.
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