[ale] Anyone checked out Slackware 12 yet?

[Jeff Lightner]

That's why Al Gore invented "yum".  

 

yum install newthingy

 

Dependency hell is mostly a thing of the past with yum.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
Philips
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Anyone checked out Slackware 12 yet?

 

No. That's not the way rpm works. Here is a better example:

rpm -i newthingy
package newthingy requires package thingylib
rpm -i thingylib
package thingylib requires newthingy

On 7/3/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

I beg to differ - on my FC4:

rpm -q kitchensink
package kitchensink is not installed

:p



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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto: ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Bob
To: ale at ale.org
Toxen
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Anyone checked out Slackware 12 yet?

I will order SW12 today.

I'm quite happy running SW11 on several desktops, including laptops,
as well as servers.  Slackware offers smaller desktops that start up
much faster than the other "everything and the kichen sink Distros". 

Bob Toxen
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:36:18AM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Just read the release announcement and it's rather exciting to me. 
> Finally, it seems that Slackware has caught up!

> I am thinking that I am going to try it out, but was wondering if
anyone
> else is going to do the same?  Is anyone still using Slackware as a
> primary desktop system?  Bob?

>     ??? Mike

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