Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Aug 2006 14:33 UTC, submitted by Tommy Borgen
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Member since:2005-11-27
Member since:2005-07-25
Well, you can't exactly call Slackware unstable when you use a third party Gnome vendor that is specifically not endorsed by Patrick because Dropline replaces key libraries.
GWare and Freerock are the recommended gnome sources for Slackware as they retain the base libraries installed, therefore not compromising stability.
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2005-07-25
Slackware only breaks (in my experience) when you do an upgrade via swaret or slackpkg and don't read the changelog. Quite often a package will be split into two or three smaller packages along the way and the upgrade will not install the newly created packages.
For example, Jul 26,2006 x11-6.9.0, Patrick removed freetype and fontconfig into seperate packages. If you only perform an upgrade of x11, your system will no longer have freetype or fontconfig installed. You need to read the changelog with every update and manually add those packages that have been split off into individual packages.