dep, FHS, Slackware

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach Collins:
>
> And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically
> updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages?  

Installed packages:
/var/adm/packages
/var/adm/scripts

Uninstalled packages:
/var/adm/removed_packages
/var/adm/removed_scripts

> I already know how to do this on my primary distribution - everything
> I need is built right in.  
> 
> I'm just interested in a real solution to the (as far as I can tell)
> surprisingly small number of packages I can find packaged for Slack -
> something that I can run and it (like RPM, or like emerge, or like
> dpkg) does its work and keeps notes.

What's wrong with building from source? If you *must* have a tool with
a "package", have a look at Slack's makepkg.

Kurt
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