installfest distros

[Peter]

On Sun, 8 May 2005, James Knott wrote:

> 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.

Slackware packages contain a little piece of code (shell script) that is 
run automatically for installation. The code can be as complex as you 
wish ... and often is for well made packages.

Peter
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