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Is this an oversight in Salix or is this inherited from Slackware? Normally in most distros the need for supporting library packages is handled by the package manager. Perhaps I am still too much of a Nube for Slackware.....

I never thought about this before, but looking into it seems like slapt-get handles deps from salix packages because we provide dep files too, but packages in slackware mirrors don't have them.

stillborn wrote:I never thought about this before, but looking into it seems like slapt-get handles deps from salix packages because we provide dep files too, but packages in slackware mirrors don't have them.

Correct. Slackware repositories don't include dependency information as Salix repositories. Since k3b is a package which is offered through Slackware repositories, there is no dependency resolution for it. We probably need a wiki page for this...

You might want to take a look here for a slackware repository that includes dependency information: http://www.stabellini.net/

I thought it was a slackware thing. So far so good with Salixos.