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Message: [QUOTE="vulonkaaz, post: 305150, member: 494"] Slackware I mean it kinda have a package manager but that thing is just like a bunch of tarballs and some simple shell scripts to install them, it isn't capable of doing dependency management, usually when you install Slackware you already have every single official packages on the DVD and install everything at once (15GB total decompressed) and the only moment where you touch the official package manager after that is for security fixes there is an unofficial package manager called slackbuild which works quite well, but if a software got an AppImage or a static binary I might wanna choose that instead (I haven't tried gentoo since the last time that I failed to compile it but from what i know its package manager is actually quite elaborate) what I mean by "simple tarball" is one where I don't have to build anything myself, one where I got the executable file as well as every single library that the thing needs, simple decompress and double click like on windows my point isn't against package managers but against locking yourself in the idea that everything should come from the distro's package manager, it is really convenient but sometimes it's ok to get your stuff straight from the source and not wait for the middle man to update his pkgbuild file sometimes i discover a new software I am already on the dev's site I can see that there is an appimage file I will not bother to check my package manager i will just download the file, that's the most convenient thing to do in that situation [automerge]1756202482[/automerge] I just remembered one time when I had my seedbox running armbian and was running quite an old version of Transmission with memory leak that never really got updated from the repo every few days my server would crash because it ran out of memory yet another example of the distro package manager slowing me down [/QUOTE]

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