installfest distros

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:44:20PM -0400, Steve A wrote:
>
>>Does Slackware have a package manager that can compare to either
>>Debians or SuSE's ? I think not, and that is an important
>>consideration -- don't forget we're talking for the most part about
>>NOVICE users. Last time I used Slack, one basically had to compile by
>>hand and look after one's own dependencies...
>>
>>Have things changed in this regard with Slackware ?
> 
> 
> Slackware has package manager; it's called 'tar'.  You can upgrade
> "live" in Slackware, just like any other distro.

Since when is tar a package manager?  All it is, is a container for a 
collection of files, that also supports compression.  Will it tell you 
if an app is currently installed?  Determine dependencies?  etc.
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