On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:14:27PM -0500, Ron DuFresne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Those do not make alot of difference, the key is not to accept any of the > defaults by any of these dists, pick and choose carefully which individual > packages you install. I know redhat has dependancy hell with various > packages, from the experience of trying to do as minimal as possible an > install for a webhost while migrating from sunone on solaris to > apache/redhat on the mainframe awhile back. I do not doubt that some of > these additional dists are wraught with the same issues. But, I do know > that slackware's installation process has the ability for one to do > finegrained installs and to determine specifically individual packages > from each package set.
Just because slack does not prevent one from installing or not, whatever packages one chooses does not mean there is no dependency issues. They are there and they will break things. cheers, -- Chief Gadgeteer Elegant Innovations _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
