Thanks, slackbuilds may be very usefull.

2008/11/13 Guy <sayhi2guy@???>

> Lukasz Jastrzebski wrote:
>
> >
> >I just want to ask if someone tried emerde or slapt-get for staying
> >up-to-date with software in d:b?
> >Manual compilation takes sometimes too much time and effort for me.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Luke
> >
>
> Hi
> The danger with using any 'automatic' system like slapt-get swaret or
> emerde is you run the risk of it overwriting dyne specific in a packages.
>
> As a suggestion, try looking at the slackbuilds at slackbuilds.org .
> This is a site of scripts for building from source. Even if you do not
> want to try building them (& I am not sure if this would work as d:b is
> not slackware at the end of the day) they do list dependencies, which
> can be useful). Do remember if you do compile something you can make a
> slackware package for future use. If you have a lot of slackware
> packages you need to install, just stick them in the same folder &
> install with 'installpkg ./*.tgz' & the lot will be installed.
>
> regards
> Guy
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