Yes, you are right it's better to let the choice up to each user. But it is a very disappointing experience to find the flash doesn't work if there is no obvious reason while for some other users it works with no clue why :shock:

It is definitely good to have this described on the wiki (I just ...

Hm, hm, ... how about writing a note about it in the packages' description?

I mean sth like:

If you want to see flash videos in the browser, you need 'flash-plugin' and also one of 'mozilla-nss' or seamonkey'-solibs' or 'seamonkey' to include all the necessary libraries.

and put it into the ...

I've found (at last!) why flash doesn't work in midori or opera. It's because the flash-plugin package ought to have mozilla-nss as a dependency.

After installing it, youtube seems to work in either browser.

Hi,

we have just found a missing dep for xdvi (on amd64) - it needs libXm.so.2 from lesstif.

Can someone, please, fix it?

Thank you

Hm, thank you again for your views.

Yes, it is mainly the customization of a package that makes rebuilding packages necessary. But in my situation, it is just the fact that the official lapack package has a bug (missing soft links to liblapack.so ...) and other sw depending on it fails to build ...

I thank you very much for your responses, but it seems I am perhaps the only one who uses slapt-src . No one else has similar problems?

Well, for now the extra local repo is the only practical way (or also the exclude list) how to deal with local and slapt-src packages. In my view it delegates too ...

Hello,

If I make a local package and install it either by spkg or installpkg or use a pkg from SlackBuilds (even by slapt-src ),

AND

the package is already available in a slapt-get repo , whenever I use slapt-get --upgrade , the package is about to be replaced (i.e. downgraded) by the version ...

Hi,

just installed gnumeric, but it needs libgoffice-0.8.so.8 from goffice package (which was not installed automatically). Could you please fix the dependence info in the repo?

Thanks,

JS

I also tried NetBSD, version 5.0.1. It installed like a charm and it's really fast (well, I use only OpenBox + tint2 on it). I like it very much, but it has a lot of problems with the pre-compiled packages: too many of them have conflicts not easily solved (Linux world is simpler, in this), and ...

Yes, creating a local repo with such packages sounds promising. But, please, how to do that?

If I just create e.g. /usr/local/packages and put all my packages there, it obviously won't work. slapt-get needs something more in there. What should I do?

Thanks,
JS