[ale] minimalist package manager

[Geoffrey]

Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey guys, ive been outta the loop for a little bit but was planning
> on getting a sweet little laptop :D i was gonna slap a linux on it
> but wanted one similar to gentoos portage except gentoo has a habbit
> of installing a "base" package of many programs. most of which i
> never use or atleast to my knowledge never use. in portage i set the
> optimizations and utilities i wish to be linked/ work with everything
> or select ones i dont wish to be used. such as perl and audio
> drivers. is there such a package manager? a true minimalist package
> manager that does optimizations? im wanting it to support the auto
> update like apt-get does, one command updates all installed packages.
> if such a tool exists i would much appreciate a link or name :)
> thanks guys.

Both SuSE and Mandrake permit you to select individual packages, which 
can be quite tedious.  Slack will probably give you the smallest 
footprint.   I know you weren't asking about distros, but these are 
alternatives that might fit your needs.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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