On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Moeflon hat gesagt: // Moeflon wrote: > > > I 'm getting headaches from the rpm-system. I'd like to move over to > > Slackware. > > > > => Does anybody have any idea how difficult/easy it is to build a > > sound-workstation on slack? any links? > > Isn't Slack just binary and/or source tarballs? Why not keep Mandrake > but don't use the package system and install everything from source? > Or if you want a package system done right maybe you should try Debian? > > Sorry, I can't be more specific but I never used Mandrake and I left > Slackware several years ago. IMO the packaging system in Debian helps > a lot in keeping a system free of /usr/local/-cruft and conflicts. have a look at gentoo. your machine will download source tarballs and install them automatically. additionally it does the make install step in a sandbox so that it knows what the package installed and can remove it cleanly. Its like installing from source but without the patching and stuff... installing ardour is a matter of sh# emerge ardour this command will fetch current ardour-cvs and its dependencies and then build.... look at www.gentoo.org... -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
