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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs ....
Date: 24 Aug 1995 17:18:01 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote:
] >Installing
] >AND deleting a package is no problem. (With Linux you have to uninstall
] >packages by yourself)
]
] Slackware (the Linux distribution that I am using) has a tool called
] "pkgtool" which allows you to add and remove packages from the
] distribution. It automatically figures out dependencies between packages,
] and only removes the files that don't have other dependencies.
What is the main FTP site for Slackware? (note: one site requested,
not a list of sites)
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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