package dependency resolution in slackware?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:07:42AM -0500, Net Llama! took 14 lines to write:
> > How does slackware (10.2 to be precise) handle package dependency
> > resoloution?
>
> Dependencies? It doesn't. Rather, the native Slackware package "management" tools
> (removepkg, installpkg, etc.) don't handle dependencies. The package either
> installs or it doesn't. I believe slapt-get and the other add-on tools might,
> but OOB Slackware doesn't.

I figured as much  :)

>
> > What i'm trying to do is install all the KDE packages post-install.
>
> "installpkg *" should do once you've gotten them all downloaded. I take it you've
> grabbed pre-built binaries somewhere?

err, i was assuming, perhaps erroneously, that slackware-10.2 came with
KDE on the CDs.  It seemed to have just about every other window manager.

thanks.

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