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Re: Slackware 1996 (was: Swap server .)



Yaron said:
|On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> Now I'm a bit short in space, so I wrote a little script to compute
|> how much space is taken by given packages (have yet to fix something)
|> and I plan to remove unnecessary packages ("dpkg --purge").  I wander
|> how can you achive this with Slackware?
|
|rm -rf /usr/local/netscape /usr/local/netscape1.1
|/usr/local/netscape1.2... etc.

(in case the above reply by Yaron wasn't an attempt to joke :)

The above is just the sort of thing I don't like in Slackware, you
have to manually maintain your filesystem and decide which file to
take, where to put it and how to tweak it if necessary.  All this is
handled, to some extend or another, by the Debian (and RedHat??)
packaging system.

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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