Slackware takes a different approach than other popular distributions such as Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, and Mandrake Linux. There is a disdain for packages, where related files are grouped together and managed as one entity. For example, even a simple application such as cron? would be packaged as a set of files containing the executable?, documentation, and configuration files. While this can make installing a new application relatively simple, Slackware users feel that packages limit their flexibility.
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