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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!not-for-mail From: sr1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs .... Date: 25 Aug 1995 11:05:25 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <41k3ol$l9g@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> <41fkur$srh@driene.student.utwente.nl> <41g4rf$3gh@agate.berkeley.edu> <41ic89$e7t@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 24 Aug 1995 17:18:01 GMT In article <41ic89$e7t@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: > 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) $ grep ftp.cdrom.com: /ftpserv/ftp/pub/os/linux/packages/slack/MIRRORS.TXT ftp.cdrom.com: /pub/linux/slackware is the home site. Also: (This ftp site has some FreeBSD software too ;-) Sven -- Sven Rudolph (sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de); WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/