Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 4th Dec 2003 04:42 UTC
My husband hooked me up on Slackware almost three months ago (he used to run Slackware in the '90s). While I use a large range of OSes on a daily basis, when I am under Linux I now prefer to use Slackware. This is my mini-article with thoughts on Slackware 9.1 after using it for three months on and off. Ten screenshots are included.
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I'll have to agree with Eugenia that Slackware is a fine distribution and that resolving dependencies is not an issue.
Most Slack packages I've installed were self-contained. If they weren't, the hosting site clearly defined the dependencies and provided the appropriate download links.
Automatic dependency resolution can easily go belly up when faced with situations that a human being could easily resolve with a little common sense. (E.g., dependencies broken by bumped version numbrs that represent no change in executable code.)
I've concluded that automatic dependency resolution schemes typically generate the seeds of their own destruction by generating unecessarily complicated and bogus dependency chains. Sooner or later, I've always run into a "You Can't Get There From Here" situation with the automagic stuff leaving me a broken system.
Dependency resolvers can't read and they can't think.