A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> says...

>I was not advocating a drastic change. I was only advocating that PV simply
>recommend (by inclusion) whatever PM (besides pkgtool) that he feels is the
>best.

He already did that. He recommends (by inclusion) pkgtool and GCC.
You just don't like his recommendation.

>Otherwise here is what will happen. As soon as 10 comes out there will be a
>bunch of reviews. And the reviews will hammer Slack 10 for not having a
>Deb-like or the Gentoo-like PM.

You are assuming that the reviewers are like you - people who reject
the Slackware Philosophy. A quick serach of past reviews wil, show
you that this assumption is false.

>And newbies looking to switch

....should stay away from Slackware.

>will say "Wow, this Slackware sure looks awesome... but Geez, Louise,
>I don't want to have to get a Ph.D in quantum physics in order to
>upgrade Firefox from .8 to .9."

Good! That means that they will avoid Slackware and instead choose a
distribution suited for newbies who don't want to learn.

>This (easy upgrades) is what users want.

Not Sklackware users who (unlike you) agree with the Slackware
Philosophy. We value control over ease-of-use.

>and they will choose Gentoo over Slack... and there
>will be less revenue for Slack... and eventually NO Slack.

Death of Slackawarer predicted! Film at 11!

Slackware will be here (and will be following the Slackware Philosophy)
long after those other distributions are gone, just as it has outlived
so many of them already.


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