From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:16:21 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   > The idea would be that NOTHING would get installed that wasn't   
   > *directly or indirectly*   
      
   There are other Linux distributions which have different kinds of package   
   management solutions which includes dependency resolution. Slackware   
   package management does not have dependency resoltion. If you think you   
   know what you are doing you can manually select packages during   
   installation but the recomended way to install is to do a full install.   
      
   Then there are third party repositories for Slackware like   
   slackbuilds.org which together with different tools offer dependency   
   resolution for their third party packages. However, all those dependency   
   resolutions only apply to the third party packages, they all assume that   
   you have made a full install of Slackware.   
      
   For good and bad Slackware does not have dependency resolution. What   
   would be the best way to upgrade or remove package X on which package Y   
   depends? Even with the dependency resolution from third party package   
   providers like slackbuilds.org it can quickly become a mess. Suppose that   
   you install package Y which depends upon package X. Two years later you   
   install package Z which also depends upon package X, but requires a newer   
   version of package X. To get package Z you will need to compile and   
   install a newer version of package X, but this will break package Y. If   
   you are lucky you might be able to recompile and reinstall package Y, if   
   you are unlucky your package Y is not compatible with the newer version   
   of package X.   
      
   With the original Slackware packages we know that they will allways match   
   each other. If a package is provided as a upgraded security patch any   
   other package which needs to be recompiled will also be provided from   
   Slackware.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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