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- FWIW, I'm not sure I fully agree with the information in RPM+Slackware. Sure,
- you can install the rpm binary on a Slackware system, but there won't be
- any existing rpm database to tell rpm what is/isn't installed, so there's
- no conflict checking between the packages installed with RPM, and those
- installed by Slackware. It's real possible to destroy the entire system
- if you install/uninstall RPM packages using RPM on systems where it is not
- the native package system. On the other hand, there are much fewer problems
- with converting RPMs to .tgz packages with rpm2targz (in Slackware's
- contrib directory), and then installing them with Slackware's package
- management tools, like 'installpkg', 'removepkg', and 'pkgtool'.
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- My $0.02...
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- Patrick J. Volkerding
- Slackware maintainer
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