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Re: new debian packages
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 1997, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
> > Once you decide which to install (Debian, Red Hat, Slackware), are
> > you limited to only using packages written for the distribution
> > you've installed ?? Can't you recompile packages for one distribution
> > and use them on another ??
>
> Debian can eat RH and Slackware packages. RH can eat (or will soon be
> able to eat) Debian packages. I am less certain about RH's ability to
> eat Slack packages but I suspect that it can. Slack can do neither.
>
Slack packages, at least the ones I have, are not much more than tgz
files that are untarred and then have their descriptions added as a file
in a directory. Not what I'd call sophisticated packages. No
dependencies, no package managment utilities, (not any that are worth
anything, at least). If there's anything Slackware is still useful for is
for people who want to mess with the system and learn instead of actually
using it right away :)
N.
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