[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian

[Pat Regan]

Terry wrote:
> Amen. 
> Hard drives are bigger and cheaper now anyway and so  space is not a
> problem anymore.
> i.e. A full install for slackware is only 3g. Even those of us with
> the most hardware-challenged systems have at least a 6g HD.  And
> anyone that does a dual boot nowadays will just add a second drive for
> it.
> 
> If you do a full install, you only run into dependency issues when
> installing after-market applications and those would be rare cases.
> I realize that some of you are talking from the server install
> prospective, which would make this comment irrelevant for sure, and
> really, doing a full  install of a distro is only a work around, does
> not solve the issue, just avoids it. But just thought I'd throw this
> in here anyway, for whatever it's worth.
> 

I have not used slackware in nearly 10 years, but I hope they have
something similar to apt by now.  There is absolutely no reason to have
to do a full install to get away from the old "dependency hell" on any
modern distro.  The package managers will make sure you get the
dependencies that you need.

Pat