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Originally Posted by astrogeek
Yea, I know, but I have never been comfortable with that level of automation - still prefer to keep my fingers on the keys and my eyes on the build at a speed my brain can keep up with. If something breaks along the way I am never left wondering what happened and how to recover.
I have only recently begun to use slackpkg, but only from my own rsync'd repos.
You youngsters and your fancy toys!  |
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Originally Posted by brianL
Yeah, I see your point. sbopkg & queuefiles are part of a conspiracy to turn Slackware into Ubuntu.  |
Smileys noted, but you two both have good points. I've got probably another fifteen years of life expectancy if I'm lucky, and I'm not going to waste it on stuff that can be done quicker and more accurately by a very small shell script. However, it's people doing it manually like you folk (and me, before I got lazy) that keep the layered tools lean and mean. Ubuntualisation happens when the layered tools become the new baseline that grows layered tools that become the new baseline. So I'm deeply thankful that neither of you are lazy like me
Anyway, sorry about the thread drift. Like everybody else I use Alien Bob's vlc. It's fab.
