[clug] Slackware Install Talk - Did anyone take notes or record it?

[Alex Satrapa]

On 25/09/2009, at 08:45 , BAXTER,Adam wrote:

> * Packages are simple tar.gz with a script. See www.slacky.eu and http://slackbuilds.org/ 
>  for more

* Slackware doesn't do dependencies. The opinions at the meeting were  
varied
   between "this stops you getting into dependency hell" and "this  
means you
   start off in dependency hell".

* Dr. Bates approached dependency resolution by running the program and
   installing the next library the program depended on

* Alternative option of 'ldd program_x | grep "not found"' can help, but
   in the example given by Dr. Bates the program was able to run just  
fine
   without two libraries (lib1394 or some such, probably related to
   FireWire which the laptop didn't support anyway)

* Slackware starts in a non-X initlevel by default, you must configure
   X and then adjust the default initlevel if you want to boot into X

* Dr. Bates loves KDE 3.5, dislikes KDE 4, and wonders why this was  
changed
   when KDE 4 isn't working properly and looks ugly to boot

I big thank you to Dr. Bates for sharing her Slackware experience with  
us!

Hope this helps
Alex