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Slackware actually had, and still has, the best package manager I've ever used. http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php http://www.slackware.com/config/pac
by dsl 13y ago
Slackware actually had, and still has, the best package manager I've ever used. http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php
The "elite"ness of Slackware was a bit valid. It it has no automatic dependencies system, which in itself is a powerful tool that you can do awesome things with. The second fantastic thing (which sort of ties into the first) is that packages are modified as little as possible from the original author, save some metadata. So if you know what you are doing, and an openssl vulnerability is found, you can have a package built in minutes without waiting for the upstream.
- busterarm 13y agoNot only that but if somebody finds the bug/vulnerability in working with the distro, they can very easily contribute the fix upstream. This is the big plus in favor of Slackware and Arch and something you don't see so much with say Ubuntu. There's a good reason why the Slackware and Arch communities have generally always had the best documentation of all Linux distributions and even if you're not a user of either, the information is often friendly to solving problems in other distributions.