Strongly agree. I am writing this from a slackware I broke pretty badly right after install. I accidentally deleted /var/log/packages (don't ask me how), and di

Strongly agree. I am writing this from a slackware I broke pretty badly right after install. I accidentally deleted /var/log/packages (don't ask me how), and didn't have any backup. People told me to reinstall. I didn't, I tracked down all the tgz's and hacked on installpkg to regenerate /var/log/packages without reinstalling. Of couse all streaming over a mounted curlftpfs. Oh what a rush. % ls ~/tmp/desaster/ installpkg local-pkgs root slackware64 This was possible because I knew which series I installed at date X. I knew my last security updates were at date Y and which custom (self-built) packages I had installed. Slackware is so simple, so sane, so beautiful. A hallmark of software engineering.