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Re: [TCLUG:20305] Package formats (was: Re: suidperl)
"Gabe Turner (officer)" wrote:
>
> I certainly never said Debian's packages system is bad. In fact, I find it
> quite handy and efficient. I was just saying that Slackware's packaging
> system isn't as bad as everyone seems to think (IMHO). I've never had a
Okay, so I installed Zipslack 7.1 on my craptop. Then wanted to slim it
down.
I uninstalled the glibc devel package. Next reboot, ooops I can't log
in. login among other things is complaining about not finding libcrypt.
Seems it got nuked. Well, so I booted single user. Nope, still trying to
use login. So, loadlin mumblemumble init=/bin/sh, there we go.
Reinstalled the glibc runtime package manually. Ta da, works again...
Anyway, later I notice sendmail is running even though I uninstalled it.
Turns out it didn't delete /mumblebin/sendmail since its in the tgz as
sendmail.new, and is mv'd over any existing version by the install
script. Slackware doesn't seem to have any *un*install scripts...
Slackware is not a distribution for the weak.