Linked by Ben Mazer on Wed 15th Oct 2003 20:58 UTC
A few months ago I was a Slackware Junkie. I loved it, and laughed at those who used 'more automatic' distributions (ok, I didn't actually laugh). Then Arch Linux 0.5 came out and I was very intrigued by it. I was getting tired of having to compile updated packages myself. 
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does it just give you a fat binary/ a package that contains all dependancies so when it does a dep check it can install the one in the package if need be?
that would be a nice way to do it, and I think Windows and Mac do it this way (well macs do it slightly different because the the nature of the app folders.