On Sunday 22 May 2005 20:08, askar ... wrote: > If I'm not wrong we can put Gentoo, Slackware and LFS distros on > the same line - I mean they're all source based distros. As far as > I know Slackware there is no emerge-like tools - I have to do > everything manually.
Slackware is not a source-based distro. Slackware packages, despite their tgz extension, contain binary files which, once expanded, go into the right directories. And yes, there are tools that help you keep a slackware distro up-to date, more or less automatically. The most famous one is swaret. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
