On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:11:03PM +0300, anonymous wrote: > Maybe it is ok too, but I haven't tried it. I suggest Slackware because > I think that it is what OP asked for: you can build software by hand, > make package and install with a package manager. You don't have > to write building script if you don't want to. It is in constrast to > Arch where you can't create package without PKGBUILD. Of course, you > can use tar, gzip and other tools, but if format of package is changed > you will need to rewrite all your scripts dealing with packages. >
This sounds interesting. slackware does not have dependencies, so I don't think it works for me, but how does package creation on slackware works seems interesting. Maybe you have some further information about it?