From: alexm0n@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:44:50 -0000 (UTC), Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:37:42 +0000, ewtrdfsga wrote:   
   >> in the interest of putting slackware on older hardware, what would be   
   >> the minimal packages in to install for having a basic slackware system?   
   >   
   > As a beginner, when I installed Slackware for the first time many years   
   > ago I did try to choose only the packages I would need and carefully   
   > answer the question for each package during the installation process of   
   > Slackware 3.0. One of those packages I got a question about was groff,   
   > described as some kind of text formatting utility. I thought I would not   
   > need that and ended up with a system without working man-pages.   
   >   
   > Since then I have allways made full installs of Slackware.   
   >   
      
   It's also worth noting as well that many slackbuilds won't work and they   
   don't bother listing dependencies that are included with the base system.   
      
   Alex   
      
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