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that happened because you haven't installed the new packages added to the current tree, as it happened a few days ago with libwebp.
please parse the ChangeLog.txt of current to see what has been added and if you're using slackpkg to update your current installation, in general, follow this routine
to automagically remove the packages removed from the slackware current tree but be aware that this command will suggest you to remove also every third-party package you have installed yourself on your current so be sure to deselect them if you don't want for them to be removed.
that happened because you haven't installed the new packages added to the current tree, as it happened a few days ago with libwebp.
please parse the ChangeLog.txt of current to see what has been added and if you're using slackpkg to update your current installation, in general, follow this routine
to automagically remove the packages removed from the slackware current tree but be aware that this command will suggest you to remove also every third-party package you have installed yourself on your current so be sure to deselect them if you don't want for them to be removed.
Yes, I did that and noticed libwebp-0.6.0 when "install-new" ran.
links are created when you install the package by the /var/log/scripts/libwebp-0.6.0-x86_64-1 file that is executed during installation (the doinst.sh file in the package).
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