I'm a Slackware user (as a "pet" testing machine) and one of the things that bothers me about this distribution is that I don't know which packages I'm supposed

I'm a Slackware user (as a "pet" testing machine) and one of the things that bothers me about this distribution is that I don't know which packages I'm supposed to install. For example, by default it wants me to install both lilo and grub, but only one of them seems to be necessary. Is that alright? Do I need to select my packages manually from the long list? Besides that initial confusion, once it is up and working, it is remarkably minimal, clean, elegant, and with very up-to date packages (if you use "-current"). I love that package management does not install recursive dependencies. It is my smaller testing VM and feels just as fast as the others, and never gives me any trouble.