Subj : Slackware 15-ish
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Richard Falken
Date : Tue Feb 23 2021 05:30 pm

  Re: Slackware 15-ish
  By: Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal on Tue Feb 23 2021 11:45 am

 > Hello Maurice!
 > 
 > 19 Feb 2021 17:29, Maurice Kinal wrote to Richard Falken:
 > 
 >  RF>> libc upgrades are a bitch.
 > 
 >  MK> That is putting it mildly.  glibc-2.33 was a tad more bitchier than  normal methinks.
 > 
 > slackware just miss gentoo portage, revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg
 > 
 > never anymore slackware here
 > 
 > 
 >  Regards Benny
 > 
 > ... too late to die young :)

If you get a total broken Slackware install you can just boot a install DVD, force an upgrade on the broken system, and then rebuild all your "extras" with sbotools quite easily.

And it will take less time than rebuilding half your @world.

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